The Pessimist: The young man—"Oh Lord! If they don't get a ladder to us we're done for!" The other—"You're a pessimist!"

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The Pessimist: The young man—"Oh Lord! If they don't get a ladder to us we're done for!" The other—"You're a pessimist!"
© Delaware Art Museum / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Not for reproduction or publication.

The Pessimist: The young man—"Oh Lord! If they don't get a ladder to us we're done for!" The other—"You're a pessimist!"

Date1914
Artist (American painter, etcher, and illustrator, 1871–1951)
Illustration CitationHarper's Weekly,, January 3, 1914.
MediumCrayon on paper
Dimensionscomposition: 23 15/16 × 15 5/8 in. (60.8 × 39.7 cm)
sheet: 25 3/16 × 18 15/16 in. (64 × 48.1 cm)
Credit LineGift of Helen Farr Sloan, 2000
Object number2000-827
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsDRAWING