She: Your face is awfully tanned, and as you close your eyes in drinking, your eyelids make little white spots that are dreadfully funny. Next time you see a mirror just close your eyes and notice how odd you look.

She: Your face is awfully tanned, and as you close your eyes in drinking, your eyelids make little white spots that are dreadfully funny. Next time you see a mirror just close your eyes and notice how odd you look.
She: Your face is awfully tanned, and as you close your eyes in drinking, your eyelids make little white spots that are dreadfully funny. Next time you see a mirror just close your eyes and notice how odd you look.

She: Your face is awfully tanned, and as you close your eyes in drinking, your eyelids make little white spots that are dreadfully funny. Next time you see a mirror just close your eyes and notice how odd you look.

Date1892
Artist Albert Edward Sterner American painter, printmaker, and illustrator 1863–1946
Illustration Citation"A Request," The Editor's Drawer, in Harper's New Monthly Magazine, September 1892
MediumInk on illustration board
Dimensions18 × 16 1/2 in. (45.7 × 41.9 cm)
Credit LineGift of Helen Farr Sloan, 1978
Object number1978-40
On View
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ClassificationsDRAWING
Label TextAlbert Sterner was an internationally recognized painter and printmaker as well as an art editor and illustrator. The caption for this drawing reflects some casual teasing amid the pleasures of sport and refreshment, and perhaps a veiled plea that the tennis player curtail his drinking.
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