N. C. Wyeth illustration from "Rip Van Winkle" (1921): rare, beautifully framed antique

"Though these folks were evidently amusing themselves,     they maintained the gravest faces"    For Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving     Illustrations by N. C. Wyeth     Philadelphia. David McKay Company. 1921.    IMAGE INFORMATION​    Image Size: H 10.00” x W 6.875”    Matted & Framed:  H 17.00” x W 13.875”    Framed Price: $255.00    Packaging and shipping approximately $25.00   Washington Irving’s Rip Van Winkle was first published in 1819. Rip Van Winkle in “a little village of great antiquity” at the foot of the Kattskill Mountains many miles up the Hudson River from New York City. It is said that the author, having suffered a bankruptcy the year before he wrote his famous story, was living at the time in Kinderhook where was employed as a tutor by one the town’s leading families. He later admitted to friend that "when I wrote the story, I had never been on the Catskills." Whether N. C. Wyeth was ever “on the Catskills” I do not know, but he was not there when he