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

Author Relates to Mary Gertrude (née Mead) Abbey

1911

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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.

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Title: Man in seventeenth-century dress holding a scroll: With every Good Wish from M. G. and E. A. Abbey for 1911
Artist: Edwin Austin Abbey (American, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1852–1911 London)
Author: Relates to Mary Gertrude (née Mead) Abbey (American (born England), Torquay, Devon 1851–1931 Brent, Middlesex)
Date: 1911
Medium: Pen and ink
Dimensions: sheet: 8 5/8 x 5 11/16 in. (21.9 x 14.4 cm)
Classification: Drawings
Credit Line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1964
Object Number: 64.636.3
Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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