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You who are asleep in your mind, are the last to know it

Frederick Henry Townsend
1868-1920

You who are asleep in your mind, are the last to know it

ca. 1901
13 5/8 x 10 1/16 inches (347 x 256 mm)
Pen and black ink over graphite and touched with white, on paper.
1986.2117

Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.

Notes
Title from item.
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.
Inscriptions/Markings
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.
Classification
Century Drawings