1879-1880 (Etching and drypoint on paper
the patron saint of surrealists
Stub (a museum ticket) has nowhere to go until Daisy the docent’s helper (a name tag) finds him and offers him a tour of the museum
Sketchbook pages are micro-perforated for easy removal with clean edges
Traditional Turkish Ottoman artwork with a lucky blue Nazar glass evil eye dangling from the finger
Edward Gorey - The Hapless Child Kelsey Murphy 1879-1880 (Etching and drypoint onTwenty six curious creaturesfrom the fastidious Ampoo to the worlds one and only Zotefill the pages of The Utter Zoo, an alphabet from the untamed imagination of Edward Gorey. The Boggerslosh, the Crunk, and the Dawbis; the Ippagoggy, the Jelbislup, and the Kwongdzu; the Scrug, the Twibbit, and the Ulpeach strange and wonderful zoomate displays its own primary characteristic, described in Goreys inimitable, droll, rhyming couplets.