the chalk drawing depicts a cloaked supernatural figure, the Green Gaffer, running through a woods.

Laurence Housman's first publication, "The Green Gaffer," appeared in Harry Quilter's Universal Review in July 1890. The five full-page illustrations Housman drew to accompany this imaginative tale show the fuzzy chalk style he favoured before meeting Charles Ricketts, who advised him to use pen-and-ink to achieve the effect of Pre-Raphaelite wood-engravings.

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