Rip Van Winkle adapted for other media for the last two centuries, in cartoons, films, stage plays, music, and other media. Rip Van Winkle "Rip Van Winkle" is a short story by the American author Washington Irving first published in 1819. It follows a Dutch-American villager in colonial America named Rip Van Winkle who falls asleep in the Catskill Mountains and wakes up 20 years later, having missed the American Revolution. Irving wrote it while living in Birmingham, England, as part of the collection "The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent." The story is set in New York's Catskill Mountains, but Irving later
Dismissal of School on an October Afternoon memorial exhibit. In 1992, this painting was featured in the "An Exhibit of American Painting, 1815–1865: from the M. and M. Karolik Collection at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston." "Dismissal from School on an October Afternoon" was not Inman's only work influenced by Irving. Inman was particularly interested in Rip van Winkle. In 1823, "Rip Van Winkle Awakening from His Long Sleep" was painted. Several years later Inman painted his "James Henry Hackett as Rip Van Winkle". There is also an undated sketch titled "Rip Van Winkle". James Cozzens commissioned the painting. Ownership soon passed to William P. Jones.