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 four figures; at the center of the design is a man is seated in a chair with Harry Lorrequer standing to his immediate left; at right, another man sits in an armchair, leaning back with his legs crossed, as another man stands slightly in the background with a pipe in his mouth.
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.