"73 Howell 200"--Gordon N. Ray typed inventory.
Drawing 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 ..."
Drawing tipped onto mat board along with a second drawing by Stanfield illustrating the same subject (see 1986.2241:2); 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".
Initialed "CS" at lower left.
Title from item.
Drawing shows three sailors seated on the outer yardarm of a ship, with a lighthouse visible in the distance below.
Ray, Gordon Norton, 1915-1986, former owner.