BIB_ID
330346
Accession number
MA 3207.9
Creator
Fawkes, Lionel Grimston, 1849-1931.
Published
ca. 1874.
Credit line
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.
7 5/8 x 4 13/16 inches (194 x 122 mm)
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.
Summary
Being a pen and ink drawing of three gentlemen in an office or study; one gentleman is on bended knee in front of an open drawer in the desk, peering into the drawer; the other two gentlemen are standing behind and to the side of him and are looking on.
Medium
pen and ink.
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Classification
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