Record ID:
330368
Accession number:
MA 3207.16
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 a young woman, slumped in a chair, her head resting on her arm, a gentleman standing to the side of her and addressing her, a woman in the background with a handkerchief to her eyes and a second gentleman looking on.
Medium:
pen and ink.
Dimensions:
7 1/4 x 4 11/16 inches (184 x 119 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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