Hablot Knight Browne, called Phiz

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Hablot Knight Browne, called Phiz
1815-1882
"Seated on an upright tombstone, close to him, was a strange unearthly figure"
1874?
Graphite on paper.
4 3/8 x 5 7/16 inches (111 x 138 mm)
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
1986.1769:12
Notes: 

Drawing for an illustration to the Household edition of Charles Dickens's The posthumous papers of the Pickwick Club (London : Chapman & Hall, 1874), p. 201.
Forms part of an album of 59 graphite and chalk drawings by H.K. Browne; including 22 drawings for illustrations executed for the Household edition of Pickwick papers, as well as sketches, studies, and designs for the periodical Judy.
Title supplied by cataloger.

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Mounted on album leaf annotated in pencil: "Pickwick" and "p. 201".

Provenance: 
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary: 

Drawing of a graveyard setting, where Gabriel Grub the sexton is shown seated on a tomb at right with a small bottle in his hand and a pick at his feet and the goblin king sits cross legged atop a tombstone at left, the two main figures surrounded by the king's impish attendents.

Associated names: 

Ray, Gordon Norton, 1915-1986, former owner.

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