Howard Pyle, a chronicle by Charles D. Abbott, with an introduction by N. C. Wyeth and many illustrations from Howard Pyle's works.

MURAL DECORATION
nent object. At the left-hand end of the picture is a
group of humble settlers, listening to the reading of the
credentials. At the right of the picture (into which reaches
a long board landing stage or wharf ) is a group of newly
arrived immigrants, who are waiting respectfully while the
credentials are read. Back of these figures are two other
crowds of immigrants, and are all uncovered excepting
Carteret, who wears his slouch and feather hat. These
figures are standing in the passage of a cloud shadow. The
air is filled with a golden-yellow light, and the sun in the
distance bursts forth upon the ship (The Philip) riding at
anchor in the bay. A group of immigrants from the
ship is just landing at the extremity of the landing stage,
bearing with them great bundles of clothing and other
belongings.. 007
A letter to Howland D. Perrine gives an interesting idea
of the research necessary f or such a picture as "The Landing
of Carteret":
cc.&.The facts of the landing of Carteret are of the
meagerest possible sort, and in consequence I was obliged
to paint my picture largely from surmise and analogy. For
in-stance, I felt that it would be reasonable to suppose that
Carteret would not simply land from his ship, The Philip,
without taking some form of official possession of the new
province; so that while there is no account of what that
official ceremony was, I felt tolerably sure that it would
consist in reading aloud the royal grant to the proprietor,
and the authority of the proprietor appointing Sir Philip
Carteret as his representative and governor. I judged this
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