Caption continues: When the family go out of town, Betsy Jane gives everything a good polish up. The Guv'nor don't know himself, hardly, when he comes home again.
Drawing for a cartoon published in the the Judy almanack for 1871.
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.
Title from published caption.
Drawing shows a maid servant dusting a portrait bust of a man which stands on a pedastal at right, as a man, whose features resemble that of the statue, sits smoking in an armchair at far right; at far left, a doorway where a second maid stands with a feather duster in her hands.
Ray, Gordon Norton, 1915-1986, former owner.