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Harry Furniss
1854-1925
Little Birds are Choking
India ink on illustration board.
9 1/2 x 6 inches (242 x 152 mm)
Gift of John Hay Whitney.
1983.102:23
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. 377.
Inscription:
Inscribed on mount, "Little birds are choking/ Baronets with bun,/ Taught to fire a gun:/ Taught I say to splinter/ Salmon in the winter/ Merely for the fun".
Provenance:
John Hay Whitney, New York.
Associated names:
Whitney, John Hay, former owner.
Carroll, Lewis, 1832-1898. Sylvie and Bruno concluded.
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