Featured on PDR in the essay Moonblight and Six Feet of Romance: Dan Carter Beard’s Foray into Fiction
An esoteric disease which reveals things in their true light; three pairs of disembodied feet galavanting about the countryside - Abigail Walthausen explores the brief but strange literary career of Daniel Carter Beard, illustrator for Mark Twain and a founding father of the Boy Scouts of America.
Also appearing in the essay…
Other works by the artist in the archive…
“However Strong and Mighty the Beast May Be, He Can in the End Be Conquered by the Diminutive Microbe.”
Artist
Date
1889
From
Moonblight
