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            Thomas Heath Robinson
      
            1869-1950
      
            "He offers to pay them a good sum down"
ca. 1903
      
            12 1/8 x 8 7/8 inches (307 x 226 mm)
      
            Pen and black ink over graphite, on illustration board.
      
            1986.2115 
      
            Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
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Drawing for an illustration for a work of fiction entitled "A perfect disappearance"; possibly a novel or short story by Talbot Smith published under that title ca. 1903.
          Drawing for an illustration for a work of fiction entitled "A perfect disappearance"; possibly a novel or short story by Talbot Smith published under that title ca. 1903.
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              Signed in pen and ink at lower left, "T.H. Robinson"; in pencil within the margin at foot: "A perfect disappearance No. 3"; and "He offers to pay them a good sum down"; in pencil on verso, "3 1/2 ".
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