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The Three Badgers

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Harry Furniss
1854-1925

The Three Badgers

6 1/4 x 9 inches (160 x 225 mm)
India ink on illustration board.
1983.102:8

Gift of John Hay Whitney.

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. 252.
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed on mount, "Gently the Badgers trotted to the shore--/ The sandy shore that fringed the bay:/ Each in his mouth a living Herring bore--/ Those aged ones waxed gay:/ Clear rang their voices through the ocean's roar,/ 'Hooray, hooray, hooray!'"
Associated names
Whitney, John Hay, former owner.
Carroll, Lewis, 1832-1898. Sylvie and Bruno.
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department