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Hablot Knight Browne, called Phiz
1815-1882
Too True (detail)
1871
3 1/4 x 5 inches (83 x 127 mm)
Graphite and red chalk on paper.
1986.1769:40
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Caption continues: It wasn't thus he was wont to behave in those Dear Old Days so long ago! He didn't then leave Some People to get over Stiles any way, the best they could, while he walked on, reading his stupid Newspaper!
Drawing for a cartoon for the periodical Judy, Apr. 5, 1871, p. 223.
Forms part of an album of 59 graphite and chalk drawings by H.K. Browne; including 21 drawings for illustrations executed for the Household edition of Pickwick papers, as well as sketches, studies, and designs for the periodical Judy (1986.1769:1-59).
Drawing for a cartoon for the periodical Judy, Apr. 5, 1871, p. 223.
Forms part of an album of 59 graphite and chalk drawings by H.K. Browne; including 21 drawings for illustrations executed for the Household edition of Pickwick papers, as well as sketches, studies, and designs for the periodical Judy (1986.1769:1-59).
Summary
Drawing for the right hand portion of a design for a cartoon shows a woman knocked to her hands and knees by a pack of hounds leaping over a stile; the completed design includes the figure of a man (presumably the woman's husband) walking to the left, immersed in his newspaper and oblivious to his wife's distressing predicament.
Associated names
Ray, Gordon Norton, 1915-1986, former owner.
Classification
Century Drawings
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