An Old Man Had Come out of One of the Houses, from "Not Honorably Discharged"
Medium
Black and white gouache and black chalk on paper
Dimensions
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Classification
Drawing
Department
Drawings
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Gift of Albert Rosenthal
Accession Number
1917.277
Tags
About this artwork
William Leroy Jacobs created this image for a short story by Alice French (writing under the pen name Octave Thanet), “Not Honorably Discharged,” published in Collier’s Fiction Number for May 14, 1904. Magazines like Collier’s offered new opportunities and a ready source of income for emerging and lesser-known writers and artists. In his depiction of this story inspired by contemporary life, Jacobs focused on the protagonist, an older soldier whose black coat creates a dark silhouette in the sno...