Illustration for Not a Pin to Choose I.; There was a passageway yawning before him

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Illustration for Not a Pin to Choose I.; There was a passageway yawning before him

Date1890
Illustration Citation"Not a Pin to Choose I.," by Howard Pyle, in Harper's Young People, June 10, 1890
MediumInk on illustration board
Dimensionssheet: 11 15/16 × 9 15/16 in. (30.3 × 25.2 cm)
Credit LineGift of Willard S. Morse, 1920
Object number1920-30
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