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Boy Climbing a Web on a Castle Turret

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Alfred Crowquill

Boy Climbing a Web on a Castle Turret

6 1/4 x 5 3/8 inches (158 x 138 mm)
Graphite on paper.
1956.28:7

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 "7" in pen at upper right.
Summary

Drawing shows a boy climbing a giant spider web attached to the turret of a castle; with another version of the same subject sketched on verso.

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