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Hablot Knight Browne, called Phiz
1815-1882
"Baker, you must put Dandy on the bar"
1864?
Black and red chalk on paper.
5 1/8 x 7 1/4 inches (130 x 185 mm)
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
1986.2456
Notes:
Drawing for an illustration to Anthony Trollope's Can you forgive her? (London : Chapman & Hall,1864-1865), v. I, p. 168.
Signed "Phiz" at lower right.
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Inscription:
In pencil at foot: "Baker, you must put Dandy on the bar"/ Can you forgive her by A. Trollope; on verso in pen in Trollope's hand: The off beast should be a mare. The two are Dandy and Flirt. The man is at Dandy's head.
Provenance:
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary:
Drawing shows Lady Glencora Palliser and Alice Vavasor seated in an open carriage pulled by the two horses Dandy and Flirt, with the groom Baker standing by Dandy's head.
Associated names:
Ray, Gordon Norton, 1915-1986, former owner.
Bibliography:
Ray, Gordon N. The illustrator and the book in England from 1790-1914. New York : Oxford University Press, 1976, p. 79.
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