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<p>[QUOTE="BaseballGames, post: 9760821, member: 7826"]No actual answers from our corner, just our two cents' worth of general impressions... </p><p>Really nice pen-&-ink-or-inkwash drawing... clearly a study, though, what with the "transparent" box at lower left, and the doodle (part of a face -- with a bloody nose, or an obscene amount of nostril hair? or just the bottom edge of a window curtain?) at the upper right... </p><p>Knee-jerk reaction here was that the male figure was some sort of Puritan-era witchfinder or somesuch paid accuser... then, with the hare in his pocket, that he himself was a witch or warlock (rabbits and hares were often alleged to be witches' familiars), or maybe just a "stage magician" ("Watch me pull a rabbit outta this hat!")... </p><p>Can't guess what the woman's rope is connected to, if anything -- maybe she's performing "the Hindoo Rope Trick"... </p><p>Word or name at lower left -- "Siddon"? "Gliddon"? A misspelling of "widow" with two d's?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="BaseballGames, post: 9760821, member: 7826"]No actual answers from our corner, just our two cents' worth of general impressions... Really nice pen-&-ink-or-inkwash drawing... clearly a study, though, what with the "transparent" box at lower left, and the doodle (part of a face -- with a bloody nose, or an obscene amount of nostril hair? or just the bottom edge of a window curtain?) at the upper right... Knee-jerk reaction here was that the male figure was some sort of Puritan-era witchfinder or somesuch paid accuser... then, with the hare in his pocket, that he himself was a witch or warlock (rabbits and hares were often alleged to be witches' familiars), or maybe just a "stage magician" ("Watch me pull a rabbit outta this hat!")... Can't guess what the woman's rope is connected to, if anything -- maybe she's performing "the Hindoo Rope Trick"... Word or name at lower left -- "Siddon"? "Gliddon"? A misspelling of "widow" with two d's?[/QUOTE]
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