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Hablot Knight Browne, called Phiz
1815-1882
"With a countenance greatly mollified by the softening influence of tobacco, requested him to 'fire away'"
1874?
4 5/16 x 5 7/16 inches (110 x 138 mm)
Graphite on paper.
1986.1769:16
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Drawing a variant design for an illustration to the Household edition of Charles Dickens's The posthumous papers of the Pickwick Club (London : Chapman & Hall, 1874), p. 225.
Forms part of an album of 59 graphite and chalk drawings by H.K. Browne; including 22 drawings for illustrations executed for the Household edition of Pickwick papers, as well as drawings for cartoons for the periodical Judy and various sketches, studies, and designs.
Published caption title.
Forms part of an album of 59 graphite and chalk drawings by H.K. Browne; including 22 drawings for illustrations executed for the Household edition of Pickwick papers, as well as drawings for cartoons for the periodical Judy and various sketches, studies, and designs.
Published caption title.
Inscriptions/Markings
Mounted on album leaf annotated in pencil: "Pickwick p. 225 (1st sketch)".
Summary
Drawing shows Mr. Weller senior standing in front of the fireplace at the Blue Boar, smiling, with his back to the fire, with one hand in his pocket and the other evidently grasping his lapel and lacking the pipe included in the final version of the design; at left, his son Sam Weller sits on a settle at a small table with a paper and quill in his hands, as the barmaid stands at right with a glass on a tray.
Associated names
Ray, Gordon Norton, 1915-1986, former owner.
Classification
Century Drawings
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