Squercum in his office [drawing]

Record ID: 
330065
Accession number: 
MA 3207.5
Author: 
Fawkes, Lionel Grimston, 1849-1931.
Published: 
ca. 1874.
Credit: 
Purchased on the Fellows Fund, with the special assistance of Mrs. Vincent Astor, Mr. and Mrs. Richardson Dilworth, Mr. Albert H. Gordon, Mr. Morris Hadley, Mrs. Harold M. Landon, Mr. Paul Mellon, Mrs. James H. Ripley, Mr. Benjamin Sonnenberg, Mr. Robert H. Taylor, The Thorne Foundation, Mrs. Alan Valentine and Miss Julia P. Wightman, 1977.
Description: 
1 drawing
Notes: 

Part of a collection drawings by Lionel Grimston Fawkes for Anthony Trollope's novel "The Way We Live Now;" drawings in this collection have been described individually in separate catalog records; see collection level record for more information.

Summary: 

Being a pen and ink drawing of an older gentleman slouched in an office chair, legs stretched out in front of him, and a young gentleman, sitting on a stool, his right arm resting on a desk and his torso leaning in towards the gentleman in the chair.

Medium: 
pen and ink.
Dimensions: 
7 7/8 x 4 7/8 inches (199 x 125 mm)
Binding: 
Red leather gilt by Riviere.
Provenance: 
Purchased on the Fellows Fund, with the special assistance of Mrs. Vincent Astor, Mr. and Mrs. Richardson Dilworth, Mr. Albert H. Gordon, Mr. Morris Hadley, Mrs. Harold M. Landon, Mr. Paul Mellon, Mrs. James H. Ripley, Mr. Benjamin Sonnenberg, Mr. Robert H. Taylor, The Thorne Foundation, Mrs. Alan Valentine and Miss Julia P. Wightman in 1977.
Classification: