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Sketch for "The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain"

Clarkson Stanfield
1793-1867

Sketch for "The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain"

7 x 4 1/2 inches (178 x 114 mm)
Pen and black ink and graphite, on paper.
1986.2241:2

Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.

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 ..."
Title from item.
Summary

Four small sketches of sailors seated on the outer yardarm of a ship.

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