Hablot Knight Browne, called Phiz
1815-1882
"Baker, you must put Dandy on the bar"
1864?
5 1/8 x 7 1/4 inches (130 x 185 mm)
Black and red chalk on paper.
1986.2456
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Drawing for an illustration to Anthony Trollope's Can you forgive her? (London : Chapman & Hall,1864-1865), v. I, p. 168.
Signed "Phiz" at lower right.
Title from item.
Signed "Phiz" at lower right.
Title from item.
Inscriptions/Markings
In pencil at foot: "Baker, you must put Dandy on the bar"/ Can you forgive her by A. Trollope; on verso in pen in Trollope's hand: The off beast should be a mare. The two are Dandy and Flirt. The man is at Dandy's head.
Summary
Drawing shows Lady Glencora Palliser and Alice Vavasor seated in an open carriage pulled by the two horses Dandy and Flirt, with the groom Baker standing by Dandy's head.
Associated names
Ray, Gordon Norton, 1915-1986, former owner.
Bibliography
Ray, Gordon N. The illustrator and the book in England from 1790-1914. New York : Oxford University Press, 1976, p. 79.
Classification
Century Drawings
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