John Leech
1817-1864
Scene.-A villa, a convenient railway distance from town ...
1845
3 9/16 x 6 15/16 inches (91 x 177 mm)
Graphite on paper, mounted onto detached album page.
1986.583:2
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Caption continues: ... Enter a deputation. Spokesman, "If you please, mum, would you have any objection to our little Mill coming off on your grass-plot?"
Original drawing for no. II of a series of 12 illustrations entitled "Railway miseries," which appeared in "Punch's almanack for 1846," published in: Punch, vol. 10, Jan.-June, 1846.
Original drawing for no. II of a series of 12 illustrations entitled "Railway miseries," which appeared in "Punch's almanack for 1846," published in: Punch, vol. 10, Jan.-June, 1846.
Summary
Drawing shows a group of railway men entering a parlor where an older couple sit knitting and reading a newspaper.
Associated names
Ray, Gordon Norton, 1915-1986, former owner.
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Century Drawings
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