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Harry Furniss
1854-1925
The Three Badgers
India ink on illustration board.
6 1/4 x 9 inches (160 x 225 mm)
Gift of John Hay Whitney.
1983.102:8
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.
Inscription:
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!'"
Provenance:
John Hay Whitney, New York.
Associated names:
Whitney, John Hay, former owner.
Carroll, Lewis, 1832-1898. Sylvie and Bruno.
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