Original art, mounted and framed, 13" x 18¼", $150.00 USD plus $20.00 shipping within the USA. (Massachusetts residents will be charged 6 ¼% sales tax.)
Image © 2010 E. J. Barnes. First appeared as illustration for "From Vardley to North Homage: The Fictional Shaker in the Eyes of the World", presented by Dr. Brian L. Bixby at the 2010 Enfield Shaker Forum at Enfield Shaker Museum, Enfield, NH.
Catharine Maria Sedgwick's 1824 novel Redwood was but the first of numerous 19th-century portrayals of Shakers in fiction. It was also the first appearance of a recurring theme: The wicked Shaker elder bent on debauching a young, innocent Shakeress.