Forms part of a collection of 13 drawings by Browne for illustrations for the novels of Charles Lever (see 1986.1768:1-13).
Preliminary sketch for an illustration to Charles Lever's Confessions of Harry Lorrequer (Dublin : William Curry, Jun. and Company, 1839), p. 137.
Title from Ray.
Drawing shows an interior scene with five figures; at the center of the design, Harry Lorrequer stands over a man who is seated at a table, another man is sits back in a chair withhis legs crossed at far left, and two more men stand with arms crossed, one in the background at left and the other at far right.
Ray, Gordon Norton, 1915-1986, former owner.
The illustrator and the book in England from 1790 to 1914 / Gordon N. Ray. New York ; London : Oxford Univ. Pr., 1976, p. 78-79.