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Plate #35 | What's this? Ah yes, who can forget | This brute of obstinacy mulish, | The Mo-non-go-halian Slith-e-ret | Whose attitude is always foolish!
Plate #35 | What's this? Ah yes, who can forget | This brute of obstinacy mulish, | The Mo-non-go-halian Slith-e-ret | Whose attitude is always foolish!
Plate #35 | What's this? Ah yes, who can forget | This brute of obstinacy mulish, | The Mo-non-go-halian Slith-e-ret | Whose attitude is always foolish!
(American, 1872 - 1938)

Plate #35 | What's this? Ah yes, who can forget | This brute of obstinacy mulish, | The Mo-non-go-halian Slith-e-ret | Whose attitude is always foolish!

Watercolor and ink on illustration board
ca. 1915
11 1/8 × 14 1/8 in. (28.3 × 35.9 cm)
2005.15.35
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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Plate #23 | And further still, to dash his hopes, | He saw audaciously advancing | Three Plantain Mountain Kick-e-lopes, | Whose specialty is tight-rope dancing.
Plate #23 | And further still, to dash his hopes, | He saw audaciously advancing | Three Plantain Mountain Kick-e-lopes, | Whose specialty is tight-rope dancing.
Royal Lacey Scoville
ca. 1915
Plate #6 | The burly brute of vicious breed | Which follows is not hard to label. | It is the Wall-eyed Hex-a-pede | With legs from someone's parlor table.
Plate #6 | The burly brute of vicious breed | Which follows is not hard to label. | It is the Wall-eyed Hex-a-pede | With legs from someone's parlor table.
Royal Lacey Scoville
ca. 1915
Plate #26 | Here laboring to wheel across | His bright young Hopeful in a barrow | We see the stern Sham-poot-er-os, | To tell whose deeds would freeze your marrow.
Plate #26 | Here laboring to wheel across | His bright young Hopeful in a barrow | We see the stern Sham-poot-er-os, | To tell whose deeds would freeze your marrow.
Royal Lacey Scoville
ca. 1915
Plate #36 | Here Cary-at-ides obese, uphold, | (This way they earn their boodle) | A beast of most ungainly mold, | The gentle, twisted Por-cun-oodle.
Plate #36 | Here Cary-at-ides obese, uphold, | (This way they earn their boodle) | A beast of most ungainly mold, | The gentle, twisted Por-cun-oodle.
Royal Lacey Scoville
ca. 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 #34 | And even those whose nerves are strong | Must heave a groan when, darkly scowling, | The Quad-ri-wheeleon rolls along | And splits the welkin with his howling.
Plate #34 | And even those whose nerves are strong | Must heave a groan when, darkly scowling, | The Quad-ri-wheeleon rolls along | And splits the welkin with his howling.
Royal Lacey Scoville
ca. 1915
"Ah say, bredren, who's agwine abo'd de ship wid all dem angles? Is you, brudder?"
"Ah say, bredren, who's agwine abo'd de ship wid all dem angles? Is you, brudder?"
N.C. Wyeth
1919
"Say Pardner," He Ventured To A Hairy Old Timer On A Pea-Green Landau, "What's The Chance For A Job Around Here?"
"Say Pardner," He Ventured To A Hairy Old Timer On A Pea-Green Landau, "What's The Chance For A Job Around Here?"
N.C. Wyeth
1925
The books that are written about Him as the Son of God almost forget that His favorite title for Himself was the Son of Man.
The books that are written about Him as the Son of God almost forget that His favorite title for Himself was the Son of Man.
N.C. Wyeth
1924
Yes, 'N', He'd Let a Roar Outer Him, An' Mebbe He'd Sing, "Hail Columbia, Happy Land!"
Yes, 'N', He'd Let a Roar Outer Him, An' Mebbe He'd Sing, "Hail Columbia, Happy Land!"
N.C. Wyeth
1914
Admiral Sir William Penn, Denouncing and Turning His Son from Home: "Forget also Thine Own People and Thy Father's House" (Study)
Admiral Sir William Penn, Denouncing and Turning His Son from Home: "Forget also Thine Own People and Thy Father's House" (Study)
Violet Oakley
ca. 1903
Yes. I've always been crazy over pictures! Did you know I did china painting as a girl?
Yes. I've always been crazy over pictures! Did you know I did china painting as a girl?
Barbara Shermund
ca. 1925