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“The Knave of Hearts - The King Samples the Tarts” (oil on paper on board), by Maxfield Parrish (1870-1966), at the National Museum of American Illustration, Newport, R.I.
— Copyright the National Museum of American Illustration
Parrish was an important member of the famous art colony in Cornish, N.H., where he had an estate called The Oaks, which is still standing. See the Saint-Gaudens National Historical Park, also in Cornish. The famously reclusive writer J.D. Salinger lived in Cornish.