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Little Birds are Choking

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Harry Furniss
1854-1925

Little Birds are Choking

9 1/2 x 6 inches (242 x 152 mm)
India ink on illustration board.
1983.102:23

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 Concluded", v. 2, p. 377.
Inscriptions/Markings
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".
Associated names
Whitney, John Hay, former owner.
Carroll, Lewis, 1832-1898. Sylvie and Bruno concluded.
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department