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"He offers to pay them a good sum down"

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Thomas Heath Robinson
1869-1950

"He offers to pay them a good sum down"

ca. 1903
12 1/8 x 8 7/8 inches (307 x 226 mm)
Pen and black ink over graphite, on illustration board.
1986.2115

Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.

Notes
Title from item.
Drawing for an illustration for a work of fiction entitled "A perfect disappearance"; possibly a novel or short story by Talbot Smith published under that title ca. 1903.
Inscriptions/Markings
Signed in pen and ink at lower left, "T.H. Robinson"; in pencil within the margin at foot: "A perfect disappearance No. 3"; and "He offers to pay them a good sum down"; in pencil on verso, "3 1/2 ".
Classification
Century Drawings