Old Sol in a Delicate Situation

A Felix Darley illustration of a scene in the Joseph M. Field story "Old Sol in a Delicate Situation," one of a collection of stories in Colonel Thorpe's Scenes in Arkansaw, published by T. B. Peterson and Brothers in 1858. Darley (1822-1888) was a renowned illustrator who collaborated with such famous authors as Charles Dickens, James Fenimore Cooper, and Harriet Beecher Stowe.