Mock-up of Page [2] Text and copyright page for illuminated prayer booklet, Prayer of an Early Christian
Date
c. 1945Medium
Black ink and graphite with guidelines in graphite on paperCredit Line
Gift of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, 2015Dimensions
8 1/2 x 5 1/2 in.Description & Inscriptions
[lower center in graphite]: Copyright by Violet Oakley / 1945 / with permission [?] of / Reynal & Hitchcock, New York
It is unclear what work published by Reynal & Hitchcock inspired Oakley. Although the firm never published Saint Patrick’s prayer of protection, the “Lorica,” it did publish Oliver Saint John Gogarty’s “I Follow Saint Patrick” (in which the author followed the saint’s journey through Ireland) in 1938. The next year it published the first American edition of Mein Kampf.
It is unclear what work published by Reynal & Hitchcock inspired Oakley. Although the firm never published Saint Patrick’s prayer of protection, the “Lorica,” it did publish Oliver Saint John Gogarty’s “I Follow Saint Patrick” (in which the author followed the saint’s journey through Ireland) in 1938. The next year it published the first American edition of Mein Kampf.
