Man Holding a Scroll

Edwin Austin Abbey

1911 · Pen and ink · Drawings and Prints

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.

Artist: Edwin Austin Abbey
Date: 1911
Medium: Pen and ink
Department: Drawings and Prints
Credit line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1964

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