Record ID:
330359
Accession number:
MA 3207.13
Published:
ca. 1874.
Credit:
Purchased on the Fellows Fund, with the special assistance of Mrs. Vincent Astor, Mr. and Mrs. Richardson Dilworth, Mr. Albert H. Gordon, Mr. Morris Hadley, Mrs. Harold M. Landon, Mr. Paul Mellon, Mrs. James H. Ripley, Mr. Benjamin Sonnenberg, Mr. Robert H. Taylor, The Thorne Foundation, Mrs. Alan Valentine and Miss Julia P. Wightman, 1977.
Description:
1 drawing
Notes:
Part of a collection drawings by Lionel Grimston Fawkes for Anthony Trollope's novel "The Way We Live Now;" drawings in this collection have been described individually in separate catalog records; see collection level record for more information.
Summary:
Being a pen and ink drawing of two gentlemen in conversation in a drawing room; one is sitting in an armchair, wearing slippers, holding a newspaper in his right hand and a cigar in his left; the second gentleman is standing, facing him and lighting a cig
Medium:
pen and ink.
Dimensions:
7 3/8 x 4 9/16 inches (188 x 116 mm)
Binding:
Red leather gilt by Riviere.
Provenance:
Purchased on the Fellows Fund, with the special assistance of Mrs. Vincent Astor, Mr. and Mrs. Richardson Dilworth, Mr. Albert H. Gordon, Mr. Morris Hadley, Mrs. Harold M. Landon, Mr. Paul Mellon, Mrs. James H. Ripley, Mr. Benjamin Sonnenberg, Mr. Robert H. Taylor, The Thorne Foundation, Mrs. Alan Valentine and Miss Julia P. Wightman in 1977.
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