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Warren Lee
Dicky's Birth Day, or, A Family Toast
1805?
black ink over graphite on paper.
Peel 1891b
Notes:
Presumably intended as a preliminary drawing for a caricature print.
Provenance:
Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.
Summary:
Drawing shows a couple with their son and three guests seated at a dinner table; the husband and wife, seated at the head and foot of the table are both hugely obese; a guest seated next to their son is saying, "May Master Dicky be a greater man than his father", and another guest responds, "Do you hear that Dicky, may you be a bigger man than your father."
Associated names:
Peel, Robert, 1788-1850, former owner.
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