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.

Hopstick at Angelica's Cradle

Thackeray, William Makepeace
1811-1863

Hopstick at Angelica's Cradle

1850s
5 9/16 x 4 5/8 inches (141 x 118 mm)
Pencil, pen and brown ink, and watercolor, on wove paper.
1970.18

Gift of Mrs. Stephen H. Philbin.

Notes
Watermark: none.
Unused study for the artist's "The Rose and the Ring", not described in the printed text; first edition, London, 1855.
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed by the artist in pen and brown ink at right margin, but partially cut away: above, "W"; below, "I recommend you to use the Gammon powder yourself & have it cast about his [cut] ... / so she kissed the child, partook of lunch, bade adieu to the King & Queen and took off [cut]..."
Associated names
Dalby, P., former owner.
Philbin, Stephen, Mrs., former owner.
Bibliography
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Sixteenth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1969-1971. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1973, p. 122.
The Rose and the Ring [by] William Makepeace Thackeray. Reproduced in facsimile from the author's original illustrated manuscript in the Pierpont Morgan Library. Intro. by Gordon N. Ray. New York, 1947, xvii, n. 21.
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department