There was a recent illustration auction that included a number of Gorey's including this Holiday magazine illustration. I've always loved it but it did feel stiffer then most of his work in its perspective . Especially with the lousy Canadian dollar the pieces for sale were out of reach for me tho I would have loved to have a couple of the other ones. Last night flipping through one of my Victorian books I came across the reference for Gorey's illustration which was a nice surprise.