Mother Goose Rhymes: The Man With A Gun

Mother Goose Rhymes: The Man With A Gun

Pen drawing, American
Mother Goose rhymes
Illustration of books -- United States

Pen and ink illustration of an old bespectacled man wearing elf shoes and a hat standing in front of a tree with a basket behind it. He is facing right and is holding a blunderbuss gun with both hands pointed at a bird in the sky with clouds behind it in the background. The caption in the upper right is "There was a little man and he had a little gun and his bullets were made of Lead, lead, lead. - etc."

Johnson, Clifton, 1865-1940

Image from page 3 of Mother Goose Rhymes edited by Clifton Johnson, 1911

Jones Library Special Collections

circa 1911

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From the Clifton Johnson Collection

Illustrations

CJA0158

Pen and ink

10 x 6.5