Thornton Oakley illustration for "Harper's Monthly Magazine" (1905): beautifully framed antique Harper's Monthly Illustration In each case

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and while mastering his method for telling stories in pictures

Harper’s Weekly asked him to illustrated a serialized version of Robert Chamber’s "Cardigan

The piece was requested by the Curtis Publishing Company of Philadelphia

” which meant among other things that their lives centered on their art

Thornton Oakley illustration for "Harper's Monthly Magazine" (1905): beautifully framed antique Harper's Monthly Illustration In each caseThe Steam Shovel Takes up a Ton of Coal at a Time Illustration for Toilers of the River by the Artist Illustrations by Thornton Oakley Harper's Monthly Magazine. December 1905 Issue Vol. 112. IMAGE INFORMATION Image Size: H 8. 25 x W 5. 75 Matted & Framed: H 16. 00 x W 13. 50 Framed Price: $225. 00 Packaging and shipping approximately $22. 00 TO returned to Philadelphia after graduating from Howard Pyles school for illustrators (in Wilmington,