Illustration for "George Washington Jones: A Christmas Gift That Went A-Begging"

• Artist: Edward Henry Potthast
• Medium: Watercolor, charcoal and white crayon on cream, medium-weight, slightly textured wove paper.
• Dates: 1903
• Dimensions: Sheet: 19 3/4 x 14 13/16 in. (50.2 x 37.6 cm) Image: 14 1/16 x 8 7/8 in. (35.7 x 22.5 cm)
• Signature: Signed in charcoal, lower right, "E. Potthast"
• Collection: American Art
• Museum Location: Brooklyn Museum, BMA, 3O11, Aisle
• Exhibitions:
  • Fine Lines: American Drawings from the Brooklyn Museum (March 8, 2013 through May 26, 2013)
• Accession Number: 33.392
• Image: 33.392_PS1.jpg. Brooklyn Museum photograph, Nov 30, 2006

Catalogue Description:
Reproduced as an illustration in Ruth McEnery Stuart, "George Washington Jones: A Christmas Gift That Went A-Begging" (Philadelphia: Henry Altemus Company, 1903), facing p. 28, with the caption, "'Wush't I was a little purtier,' he lamented."