Hablot Knight Browne, called Phiz

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Hablot Knight Browne, called Phiz
1815-1882
Sketch for "Lorrequer Practising Physic" (No. 1)
1839?
Graphite on paper.
4 1/8 x 4 3/16 inches (105 x 106 mm)
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
1986.1768:10
Notes: 

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.

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

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.

Associated names: 

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

Bibliography: 

The illustrator and the book in England from 1790 to 1914 / Gordon N. Ray. New York ; London : Oxford Univ. Pr., 1976, p. 78-79.

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