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Sketchbook: Snake Series #1
Sketchbook: Snake Series #1
Sketchbook: Snake Series #1
(American, 1872 - 1938)

Sketchbook: Snake Series #1

Watercolor on paper
1914
5 1/4 × 7 3/4 × 5/8 in. (13.3 × 19.7 × 1.6 cm)
2005.15.39
Dedicated to the memory of Eleanore Shannon Scoville Wells, daughter of Royal Lacy Scoville, gift of Jonathan Godfrey Wells III and Peter Scoville Wells Sr., 2005
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Sketchbook: Snake Series #2
Sketchbook: Snake Series #2
Royal Lacey Scoville
1915
Plate #9 | And here like proud aristocrats | Whose names are always in the papers, | A pair of snoopy Dingle-bats | Indulge in their vain-glorious capers.
Plate #9 | And here like proud aristocrats | Whose names are always in the papers, | A pair of snoopy Dingle-bats | Indulge in their vain-glorious capers.
Royal Lacey Scoville
ca. 1915
Plate #1 | While nodding in his hard old chair | Tom Tompkins had a dream most shocking. | The Wizard Tumblebug came there | And frightened him with laughter mocking.
Plate #1 | While nodding in his hard old chair | Tom Tompkins had a dream most shocking. | The Wizard Tumblebug came there | And frightened him with laughter mocking.
Royal Lacey Scoville
ca. 1915
Plate #2 | Poor Tom began to whine and shake | When with his spells the Wizard bound him | And set on him a monstrous snake | Which coiled its ugly self around him.
Plate #2 | Poor Tom began to whine and shake | When with his spells the Wizard bound him | And set on him a monstrous snake | Which coiled its ugly self around him.
Royal Lacey Scoville
ca. 1915
Plate #25 | And now -- 'Tis hard to grasp the fact -- | The Snake with extra-ordinary | Good nature, does a clothes-line act | To please the plump Do-mesti-cary.
Plate #25 | And now -- 'Tis hard to grasp the fact -- | The Snake with extra-ordinary | Good nature, does a clothes-line act | To please the plump Do-mesti-cary.
Royal Lacey Scoville
ca. 1915
Plate #38 | Here ends our tale; here ends the Snake, | There is no sequel climax-capping | Except that Tompkins wide-awake | Vows nevermore to be caught napping.
Plate #38 | Here ends our tale; here ends the Snake, | There is no sequel climax-capping | Except that Tompkins wide-awake | Vows nevermore to be caught napping.
Royal Lacey Scoville
ca. 1915
Plate #3 | Along with It came creatures fit | To banish sleep from any pillow; | Such horrid monsters as to wit; | This one, the Arma-daffy-dillo.
Plate #3 | Along with It came creatures fit | To banish sleep from any pillow; | Such horrid monsters as to wit; | This one, the Arma-daffy-dillo.
Royal Lacey Scoville
ca. 1915
Plate #7 | Next with his throat within a noose | (Let's hope that it will choke him later) | Appears without the least excuse | The sanguinary Growl-i-gator.
Plate #7 | Next with his throat within a noose | (Let's hope that it will choke him later) | Appears without the least excuse | The sanguinary Growl-i-gator.
Royal Lacey Scoville
ca. 1915
Plate #8 | Behind him, skipping on its toes, | (Please do not ask me where its face is) | The Polynesian Wig-wag shows | A ballet dancer's airs and graces.
Plate #8 | Behind him, skipping on its toes, | (Please do not ask me where its face is) | The Polynesian Wig-wag shows | A ballet dancer's airs and graces.
Royal Lacey Scoville
ca. 1915
Plate #10 | This weird crustacean, grinning so, | Seems careless of what may befall him. | The Corrugated Bingalo | Is what the nature fakers call him.
Plate #10 | This weird crustacean, grinning so, | Seems careless of what may befall him. | The Corrugated Bingalo | Is what the nature fakers call him.
Royal Lacey Scoville
ca. 1915
Plate #11 | And this uncanny object which | Strives awkwardly along to potter | Is Russian. 'Tis the Dot-sko-vich, | Which in plain English means the Dotter.
Plate #11 | And this uncanny object which | Strives awkwardly along to potter | Is Russian. 'Tis the Dot-sko-vich, | Which in plain English means the Dotter.
Royal Lacey Scoville
ca. 1915
Plate #16 | And this destructive looking beast | (I'd hate to meet him in an alley | At night) -- you'll guess his name, at least: | The Whing-whang of the Kongo Valley.
Plate #16 | And this destructive looking beast | (I'd hate to meet him in an alley | At night) -- you'll guess his name, at least: | The Whing-whang of the Kongo Valley.
Royal Lacey Scoville
ca. 1915