Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Rink to me only with thine eyes

George Du Maurier
1834-1896

Rink to me only with thine eyes

Full sheet: 9 7/8 x 13 1/2 inches (250 x 342 mm); design area: 7 11/16 x 9 11/16 inches (195 x 247 mm)
Pen and black ink, over traces of pencil, on wove paper.
1982.83

Gift of Harper & Brothers as part of the Harper Collection.

Inscriptions/Markings
Signed on the pathway at lower right, "Du Maurier"; below image, "Rink to me only with thine eyes"; inscribed in graphite, "Page for P- / very light 1/2 page at 1 tomorrow" and in a different hand, "March 18 / 1876 / Cut off at top as / marked". Inscribed by the artist on verso, in graphite, "John Thomas to the rescue! / Rink society in the provinces is apt to be rather / mixed. At all events, Lady Fitz-toppington / thinks so, & will not hear of her fair daughters / skating without such attendance as befits their / rank and station"; and below, upside down, "galleries".
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department