Drawing for an illustration to the Household edition of Charles Dickens's The posthumous papers of the Pickwick Club (London : Chapman & Hall, 1874), p. 201.
Forms part of an album of 59 graphite and chalk drawings by H.K. Browne; including 22 drawings for illustrations executed for the Household edition of Pickwick papers, as well as sketches, studies, and designs for the periodical Judy.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Mounted on album leaf annotated in pencil: "Pickwick" and "p. 201".
Drawing of a graveyard setting, where Gabriel Grub the sexton is shown seated on a tomb at right with a small bottle in his hand and a pick at his feet and the goblin king sits cross legged atop a tombstone at left, the two main figures surrounded by the king's impish attendents.
Ray, Gordon Norton, 1915-1986, former owner.