Sketch for In Necessity's Mortar; The King himself hauled me out of gaol

Sketch for In Necessity's Mortar; The King himself hauled me out of gaol
Sketch for In Necessity's Mortar; The King himself hauled me out of gaol

Sketch for In Necessity's Mortar; The King himself hauled me out of gaol

Date1904
Artist Howard Pyle American illustrator, 1853–1911
Illustration Citation"In Necessity's Mortar," by James Branch Cabell, in Harper's Monthly Magazine, October 1904
MediumGraphite on paper
Dimensionssheet: 8 1/2 × 5 1/2 in. (21.6 × 14 cm)
Credit LineGift of Willard S. Morse, 1925
Object number1925-111
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ClassificationsDRAWING
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