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Harry Furniss
1854-1925
Crocodile
India ink on illustration board.
4 1/2 x 9 inches (112 x 225 mm)
Gift of John Hay Whitney.
1983.102:6
Notes:
One of 25 drawings preparatory for illustrations to Lewis Carroll's "Sylvie and Bruno" and "Sylvie and Bruno Concluded".
Lewis Carroll, "Sylvie and Bruno", v. 1, p. 229.
Inscription:
Inscribed on mount, "... Oo never saw a Crocodile so proud! [Bruno is/ talking] Why, it could go round and walk on the top/ of its tail, and along its back, all the way to its head ..."
Provenance:
John Hay Whitney, New York.
Associated names:
Whitney, John Hay, former owner.
Carroll, Lewis, 1832-1898. Sylvie and Bruno.
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