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Boy Suspended From a Spike Above a Moat

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Alfred Crowquill

Boy Suspended From a Spike Above a Moat

6 1/16 x 5 7/16 inches (156 x 139 mm)
Graphite on paper.
1956.28:9

Gift of DeCoursey Fales, 1956.

Notes
Original drawing, evidently one of a series executed by Crowquill for an unidentified children's book.
Inscriptions/Markings
Numbered "9" in pen at upper right.
Summary

Drawing shows a boy hanging from his shirt collar on a spike projecting from an outside castle wall, with grillwork and moat below.

Associated names
Fales, DeCoursey, 1888-1966, former owner.
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department