Art by Elizabeth Shippen Green, Prints of two charcoal drawings, 1910, Harper's Monthly Magazine,
Elizabeth Shippen Green illustrated for Harper's Monthly Magazine using Charcoal fixed with a thin coat of workable varnish spray. Then she applied watercolors.
Poetry by Josephine Preston Peabody (1903, The Little Past) accompanied her artwork. A copy of the original poetry is glued to the back of each picture as shown.
The Masterpiece (Girl Sewing) "My mother cut it out for me, And started it so I could see; And then she turned some edges in, And let take it to begin..."
Mystic (Girl Sitting on Chair) "People say to me, 'A penny for your thought!'; And I should think I ought. I wasn't sleeping, either; I know that, because I saw things out of my two eyes: I wonder where I was. Now I'm back, I see them..."
Old wood frames measure 7 3/4" x 5"
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