Rare Original Pencil Drawing by Edward Howard Suydam - 1930 A Café on the Place D"Armes

A CAFÉ ON THE PLACE D'ARMES by Edward Howard Suydam (1885-1940).   Graphite pencil on paper, signed lower left, dated 1930. Matted and framed, measures 21 1/8" x 19". Image dimensions: 12 1/4" x 10 1/4".  This original artwork is featured in Lyle Saxon's Lafitte the Pirate, The Century Co., 1930, facing page 68. "E. H. Suydam went with me to New Orleans, and out among the islands and bayous of Barataria, in order to make sketches in the haunts of the buccaneers. His illustrations form an important part of the record." -Lyle Saxon. Penned notations by the artist mounted at back of frame: "Little Theatre: Adjacent to each other in St. Peter Street near Chartres Street stand La[sic] Petit Theatre du Vieux Carre (the Little Theatre), organized in 1919, and Le Petit Salon, headquarters of a woman's cultural group...The Cabildo: Erected in 1795, used first as a meeting place of the Spanish Legislature, it was subsequently the scene of the transfer of Louisiana to the United States (1803) and