Mother Goose Rhymes: My Children Love Best of All: Man with a Dog and Gun

Mother Goose Rhymes: My Children Love Best of All: Man with a Dog and Gun

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

Pen and ink illustration of a man facing right with a rifle resting on his right shoulder the bottom of which he is holding with his right hand. He is wearing a conical hat and wears a dagger on his right hip. Underneath his right elbow and above the dagger is a small dog facing right. To the man's left is a black greyhound dog facing right with its right front leg above the ground. To the right is a man facing left inside of a gate in between two gate pillars. He is wearing a hat and is holding a pitchfork with his left hand behind him while gesturing toward the other man with his right fist. Bushes are in the background in between them.

Johnson, Clifton, 1865-1940

Image from page 191 of Mother Goose Rhymes My Children Love Best of All edited by Clifton Johnson, 1917

Jones Library Special Collections

circa 1911

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From the Clifton Johnson Collection

Illustrations

CJA0193

Pen and ink

7 x 5.5