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What London crushes are coming to
1873
study for cartoon for Punch magazine
- Medium
- pen and ink over pencil
- Measurements
- 17.2 × 30.2 cm irreg. (image) 25.4 × 35.4 cm (sheet)
- Place/s of Execution
- London, England
- Inscription
- inscribed in pen and ink (in image) l.r.: DM
inscribed (vertically) in pencil u.l.-c.l.: “ What London Crushes are coming to” / Harpers May Pt.1. 93 1873
inscribed in pencil u.l.: Cut off
inscribed in pencil u.r.: Cut off
inscribed in pencil l.c.: What London crushes are coming to. / – by the bye Mrs. Crowder, have you met the Willowby (…illeg.) lately? / – not for ages – I’m told they were at my house last night, but I didn’t see them – Did you happen / to be there by any chance? / – Oh yes – enjoyed myself immensely – / – so glad. (so underlined)
inscribed in pencil l.r.: 1873 p.1 / 93 / 14
inscribed (vertically) in pen and ink on reverse u.l.: 1873
inscribed (vertically) in pen and ink on reverse u.l.-c.: What London crushes (cru underlined) are coming to. / “By the bye, Lady Crowder, have you met the / Partingtons lately ?” / “Not for an age ! They were at my ball last / night , but I didn’t see them. By the way / did you happen to be there, Captain Smythe?” / “O, Yes ! Enjoyed myself immensely!” / “So glad!” (So underlined) - Accession Number
- 4552-3
- Department
- International Prints and Drawings
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Presented by the Joint Trustees of the Late G. du Maurier, 1931
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of the Joe White Bequest - Gallery location
- Not on display
- Subjects (general)
- Human Figures Humour and Satire Leisure, Games and Sport
- Subjects (specific)
- cartoons (humorous images) discussions (events) equestrians horseback riding men (male humans) socialising studies (visual works) women (female humans)
- Movements
- Victorian
