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Harry Furniss
1854-1925
He thought he saw a Kangaroo ...
India ink on illustration board.
5 1/2 x 4 1/2 inches (135 x 115 mm)
Gift of John Hay Whitney.
1983.102:12
Inscription:
Inscribed on mount, "He thought he saw a Kangaroo/ That worked a coffee-mill:/ He looked again, and found it was/ A Vegetable-Pill/ 'Were I to swallow this', he said/ 'I should be very ill!'"
Provenance:
John Hay Whitney, New York.
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 Concluded", v. 2, p. 176.
Associated names:
Whitney, John Hay, former owner.
Carroll, Lewis, 1832-1898. Sylvie and Bruno concluded.
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