Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Melmotte leaving his house after the entertainment [drawing]

BIB_ID
330370
Accession number
MA 3207.18
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 7/16 x 4 7/16 inches (189 x 113 mm)
Summary
Being a pen and ink drawing of a gentleman, in top hat and tails, holding a smoking cigar in his left hand, standing at the foot of a small staircase on a large portico and gazing upwards.
Medium
pen and ink.
Classification