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Source Description
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 <em>Collier’s Fiction Number</em> for May
14, 1904. Magazines like <em>Collier’s</em> 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 snowy landscape, highlighting both his
respectability and his isolation from the other
characters in the scene.
Scholar Source Context
Document identity
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97634
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An Old Man Had Come out of One of the Houses, from "Not Honorably Discharged"
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drawing
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1
Source metadata
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97634
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drawing
title
An Old Man Had Come out of One of the Houses, from "Not Honorably Discharged"
description
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 <em>Collier’s Fiction Number</em> for May
14, 1904. Magazines like <em>Collier’s</em> 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 snowy landscape, highlighting both his
respectability and his isolation from the other
characters in the scene.
date
1904
rights
CC0
rightsUri
CC0
language
en
wikidata
Q79482200
creators
14190
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Drawing
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1
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import
dimensionsRaw
Sheet: 54.3 x 35.6 cm (21 3/8 x 14 in.)
cul
America
accession
1917.277
Source extras
tec
Black and white gouache and black chalk on paper
tombstone
An Old Man Had Come out of One of the Houses, from "Not Honorably Discharged", 1904. William Leroy Jacobs (American, 1869–1917). Black and white gouache and black chalk on paper; sheet: 54.3 x 35.6 cm (21 3/8 x 14 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Albert Rosenthal, 1917.277
collection
DR - American 20th Century
citations
citation
"Accessions." <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 4, no. 6 (1917): 109-11.
page_number
Mentioned: p. 110
creditline
Gift of Albert Rosenthal
updatedAt
2026-05-29 05:15:39.360000
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97634
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Drawings
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DR - American 20th Century
med
Black and white gouache and black chalk on paper
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male
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Single page context
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1
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0
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photo
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ff786aec397defcf