Hablot Knight Browne, called Phiz

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Hablot Knight Browne, called Phiz
1815-1882
Too True (detail)
1871
Graphite and red chalk on paper.
3 1/4 x 5 inches (83 x 127 mm)
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
1986.1769:40
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).

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

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