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Clarkson Stanfield
1793-1867
Sketch for "The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain"
1848?
Pen and black ink and graphite, on paper.
7 x 4 1/2 inches (178 x 114 mm)
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
1986.2241:2
Notes:
"73 Howell 200"--Gordon N. Ray typed inventory.
Drawing tipped onto mat board along with another drawing by Stanfield illustrating the same subject (see 1986.2241:1); pasted below is a specimen of Stanfield's clipped autograph, excised from an unidentified letter and reading "In haste, Yours dear Phillips, most truly, C. Stanfield".
Sketch by Stanfield to illustrate the passage from the Dickens novella The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain, beginning "When mariners at sea, outlying upon icy yards, were tossed and swung above the howling ocean ..."
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Provenance:
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary:
Four small sketches of sailors seated on the outer yardarm of a ship.
Associated names:
Ray, Gordon Norton, 1915-1986, former owner.
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