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Reception of Pliable on his return home

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Date:

1875

Type of material:

Art

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Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

3026245

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James G. MacKay collection

Reception of Pliable on his return home
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Date(s):

1875

Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

1 drawing / dessin : pencil and black gall ink on wove paper
Support 20.200 x 12.700

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Image depicts townspeople gathered around Pliable. Pliable is holding his face with his right hand and is bent over. Behind him, a man has extended his rightleg behind him in preparation to kick Pliable in the boot.

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Artist: MacKay, James G, 1847-1885

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General note:

James MacKay Sketchbook

Signatures and inscriptions note:

Inscribed., Inscription: inscribed in black gall ink, t.: (8); l.c.: (Reception of Pliable on his return home) [underlined]; l.l.: "Now I saw in my dream that by this time Pliable / "was got home to his house. So his neighbors came to / "visit him and some of them called him wise man / "for coming back. And some called him fool for / "hazarding himself with Christian. Others again did / "mock at his cowardliness...So Pliable sat sneaking / "among them."
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cartoon

allegory
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Private

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1988-033 PIC
88-007
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Credit: Library and Archives Canada / Bibliothèque et Archives Canada (1988-33-1.14)
Copyright: Expired

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