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
contemporary prints that represent such a trumpeter delivering a message to his master from someone with whom he
would communicate. Consequently, I deemed it reasonable
to suppose that such a trumpeter would first come before
the company, that he would announce the title of the Governor and his degree, that the Governor would then come
forward, and that the Secretary would immediately read
his credentials to the assembled settlers.
"All this seems to me to be a very reasonable conjecture,
but there is unfortunately no absolute authority bearing it
out. There is a tradition that Carteret marched to the site
of Elizabethtown with a hoe over his shoulder, and that
he there struck the hoe into the earth and so began the
foundation of that settlement. This story is very apocryphal,
so much so that I feared to represent it. It is likely that the
event really did happen, but it is almost absolutely certain
that it was not performed in any bucolic manner, but that
it was some formality that the Governor performed which,
like the laying of a corner stone, was intended to typify the
foundation of the enterprise.
"So far as portraiture is concerned, it was, of course,
quite impossible for me to find any authentic likeness.
I failed even to discover any presentation of Carteret himself. I suppose you know that there are very few authentic
portraits of the earlier colonial governors. Even of those
which we acknowledge, fully half of them are of questionable
authenticity..0 )1
The next essay in the -field of mural decoration was a
group of pictures for the Hudson County Court House at
Jersey City. Frank Millet, who was later so tragically lost
2 etrto Howland D. Perrine, February 26, 1907.
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