A DRAWING

BY PATTEN WILSON

The image is of two men on horseback The man in the left foreground has his back to the viewer He is wearing a turban elaborate armour and has a moustache In his left hand is the end of a lasso which is tied around the torso of the other man on horseback The man in the right middle ground struggles with the lasso while his horse rears His sword has dropped to the ground The man on the rearing horse also wears a turban and has a moustache but appears to be without armour In the right foreground there is a figure in armour drawing a sword The figure is only partially in view and of indiscriminate gender There is dirt grass and plantation in the area around the men and flowers in the left corner of the image In the background there are buildings with curved angles The image is vertically displayed

MLA citation:

Wilson, Patten. “A Drawing.” The Yellow Book, vol. 5, 1895, p. 295. Yellow Book Digital Edition, edited by Dennis Denisoff and Lorraine Janzen Kooistra, 2011-2014. The Yellow Nineties 2.0, Ryerson University Centre for Digital Humanities, 2020, https://1890s.ca/yb5-wilson-drawing/

magazine_images The Yellow Book 5 A Drawing Patten Wilson 1895 Pen and Ink Illustrative Hentschel XIV

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Middle East Weapons, Blade, and Horse Human Figure, Male Figure/ Man, Person, People, Soldier/ Military Personnel/ Warrior, Facial Hair, Turban, Armour, and Androgyn Outdoor setting, Outside, Exterior, Desert, Flower, Blossom, and Iris