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Frederic W. Pailthorpe
1838-1914
Is she his wife?
1877?
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
1986.1907b
Notes:
Caption reads: Tapkins: Ha, ha! How are you both? Scene 1.
Etched frontispiece illustration for Charles Dickens' farce, "Is she his wife?"; evidently etched by the artist for an edition of 1877 (Boston : James R. Osgood, 1877), the frontispiece being distributed separately and therefore not present in all copies of this edition.
Etching accompanies the original drawing by the artist for this illustration (see 1986.1907). NNPM
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From the library of Gordon N. Ray. NNPM
Summary:
Print shows Mr. and Mrs. Lovetown seated at the breakfast table, with the figure of Felix Tapkins standing in a doorway at left.
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