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Cramming the corpse into the box & cutting the sinews to make it fit [drawing].

BIB_ID
325176
Accession number
MA 473.4
Creator
Thackeray, William Makepeace, 1811-1863.
Published
undated
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1913.
Description
1 drawing
Notes
Part of a collection of Thackeray drawings; items in the collection are described in individual records.
4 3/8 x 7 3/8 inches (110 x 186 mm)
Provenance
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Summary
Being a pen and ink drawing of a male corpse in a box, a man sawing at his legs at one end and a woman pushing on his shoulders at the other end; a third man is slumped at a table looking towards the coffin.
Medium
pen and ink.
Classification