Man wearing seventeenth-century dress holding a scroll: With every Good Wish from M. G. and E. A. Abbey for 1911

Edwin Austin Abbey American
 Relates to Mary Gertrude (née Mead) Abbey

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Abbey decorated this New Year's card with a man wearing seventeenth-century dress and holding a scroll. The latter is lettered with the initials of the artist and his wife Mary Gertrude. Sadly, Abbey died the following August, after an unexpected illness, at age fifty-nine.

Man wearing seventeenth-century dress holding a scroll: With every Good Wish from M. G. and E. A. Abbey for 1911, Edwin Austin Abbey (American, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1852–1911 London), Pen and ink

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