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'Tis a Private Room and Not for Strangers
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'Tis a Private Room and Not for Strangers
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Frederick Coffay Yohn
(American, 1875 - 1933)
'Tis a Private Room and Not for Strangers
Wash on paper
1898
18 1/2 × 12 1/2 in. (47 × 31.8 cm)
82.16.277
Gift of Jane Collette Wilcox, 1982
Not on view
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Plate #12 | From Mexico the next one hails. | 'Tis next of kin to General Villa. | Along with him in tragic tales | 'Tis mentioned as the Valentilla.
Royal Lacey Scoville
ca. 1915
Suspicious Strangers
Howard Pyle
1881
"On nearer approach he was still more surprised at the singularity of the stranger's appearance."
N.C. Wyeth
1921
Ninth Commandment: Bear not false witness—that is low—but “hear ‘tis rumored so and so”
Peter Paone
1963
The attraction of angling for all ages of man, . . . lies in its uncertainty. 'Tis an affair of luck
N.C. Wyeth
1919
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 #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
"'Tis said she used a magic potion called Black Satin." Angelique . . . the world's most talked about perfumes
Charles Addams
1955
Plate #20 | And look at these hot sports, All three | Are hummers - we might call them Whoopers. | 'Tis evident that they must be | The swift Se-wick-leyian - Loop-the-loopers.
Royal Lacey Scoville
ca. 1915
"Rolling Snow Balls (The Big Snow Ball)" for The Merry Magic Lantern Show
Frederick Burr Opper
ca. 1886
Cover for The Merry Magic Lantern Show
Frederick Burr Opper
ca. 1886
A Dream and a Story
Frederick Stuart Church
1880
