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Elma Describes Miss Exeter's Birthday Festivities to Mabel

John Edward Goodall
1853-1929

Elma Describes Miss Exeter's Birthday Festivities to Mabel

ca. 1889
4 1/2 x 6 7/8 inches (115 x 175 mm); on sheet: 5 x 7 5/8 inches (127 x 194 mm)
Black ink wash with white, on cardstock.
1986.1918

Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.

Notes
Published caption title reads: "'Tell me every single thing' adjured Mabel."
Accompanying folder incorrectly identifies John Goodall's drawings as illustrations for Emily S. Elliott's "Mrs. Blackett: her story."
Original drawing for an illustration for Lucy Bethia Walford's "A sage of sixteen" (London : Spencer Blackett & Hallam, 1889, p. 149 (facing)).
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed in pencil in lower left hand corner: Chap 11; signed "J.E. Goodall" within drawing at lower right.
Summary

Illustration shows Elma seated in a parlor talking to Mabel, who stands attentively with her back to a chair.

Associated names
Ray, Gordon Norton, 1915-1986, former owner.
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department