Drawing for an unused design for an illustration to the Household edition of Charles Dickens's The posthumous papers of the Pickwick Club (London : Chapman & Hall, 1874), chapter 19; with the central figure of Mr. Pickwick in the wheelbarrow apparently serving as the basis for the title page vignette of this edition.
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: "Not used".
Drawing shows Mr. Pickwick seated, facing left, in a wheelbarrow in the middle of a sty or pen in the company of a pig and a donkey, surrounded by a crowd of onlookers who lean against the fence of the enclosure.
Ray, Gordon Norton, 1915-1986, former owner.