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Frederick Henry Townsend
1868-1920
You who are asleep in your mind, are the last to know it
ca. 1901
Pen and black ink over graphite and touched with white, on paper.
13 5/8 x 10 1/16 inches (347 x 256 mm)
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
1986.2117
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Drawing for an illustration for a short story by W.A. Fraser, entitled "The little sister at Saint's Lake", published in Pearson's magazine, v. 12, 1901, p. 720-727.
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Signed in pen and ink at lower right, "F.H. Townsend 1901"; in pencil at foot: You who are asleep in your mind, are the last to know it.
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From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary:
Drawing shows an Indigenous man clad in buckskin and seated on a fallen tree trunk with a rifle held across his knees. Behind him stands a white man in a suit, leaning over him with his foot on the tree trunk and smoking a cigar.
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