Harry Furniss
1854-1925
The Artist Tied to His Work
1888
8 7/8 x 7 inches (225 x 178 mm)
Pen and black ink, on wove paper.
1983.14:2
Gift of Sidney Katz.
Notes
Watermark: none.
Inscriptions/Markings
Signed, dated, and inscribed by the artist, in pen and black ink, "My dear Treherne(?) / Just wouldn't I like to / try it. but, alas! No go. Im yours ever obliged / 12th June 1888; Harry Furniss"; as well as names of projects on which he was working.
Associated names
Katz, Sidney, former owner.
Bibliography
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Twentieth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1981-1983. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1984, p. 261.
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