What Was it You Did Seven Years Ago?
Date1910
Artist
Henry Patrick Raleigh
(American illustrator, 1880–1944)
Illustration Citation"Mysteries of the Law: The Inner Voice" by Melville Davisson Post, in The Saturday Evening Post, August 27, 1910
MediumCrayon, gouache, and ink wash on illustration board
Dimensionssheet: 13 5/8 × 15 1/16 × 1/16 in. (34.6 × 38.3 × 0.2 cm)
Credit LineGift of Janet Hall, 2011
Object number2011-9
On View
Not on viewClassificationsDRAWING
Label TextThe title of this drawing, which is inscribed on the reverse, refers to an anecdote reported in various legal and religious texts, and in literature about dreams. Seven years after committing a murder, a man relives the act in a dream, and when questioned while still asleep, he confesses to the crime.
Henry Patrick Raleigh
1937
Charles Davis Mitchell
1929
