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19th century
Woman Attending to an Injured Man
Pen and blue ink with wash over graphite touched with white and orange chalk, on paper.
image: 10 7/16 x 7 1/4 inches (266 x 184 mm); on sheet: 12 x 8 13/16 inches (305 x 225 mm)
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
1986.2121
Notes: 

Title devised by cataloger
Drawing for an illustration for an unidentified work of popular fiction, probably dating from the first half of the 19th century; evidently the third in a sequence of three drawings depicting a fight over a card game (see 1986.2119-21), along with a fourth drawing illustrating another episode from the same work and featuring two of the same protagonists (1986.2122).

Inscription: 

Numbered "25" in pencil at upper right; in pencil on verso, "Four drawings of scenes apparently from an early Victorian melodrama."

Provenance: 
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary: 

Drawing shows an old woman tending to an injured man, who sits in a chair holding out his arm for her to bandage. Behind them, at right, a young woman appears to be weeping into her apron as a small child hangs from her skirts; at left, a Black man in a watch cap converses with a man wearing a sou'wester. The wounded man wears a plain kilt with suspenders, striped shirt, and high boots with the tops folded down, with knit socks. A pistol lies on the floor in the foreground.

Associated names: 

Ray, Gordon Norton, 1915-1986, former owner.

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School: 
British
Century: 
19th century
Classification: 
Drawing
Department: 
Drawings and Prints