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Is she his wife? / F.W. Pailthorpe.

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Frederic W. Pailthorpe

Is she his wife? / F.W. Pailthorpe.

[Boston? : s.n., 1877?]
etching
image: 68 x 57 mm; sheet: 126 x 80 mm
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
1986.1907b
Notes
Caption reads: Tapkins: Ha, ha! How are you both? Scene 1.
Etched frontispiece illustration for Charles Dickens' farce, "Is she his wife?"; evidently etched by the artist for an edition of 1877 (Boston : James R. Osgood, 1877), the frontispiece being distributed separately and therefore not present in all copies of this edition.
Etching accompanies the original drawing by the artist for this illustration (see 1986.1907).
Provenance

From the library of Gordon N. Ray.

Summary

Print shows Mr. and Mrs. Lovetown seated at the breakfast table, with the figure of Felix Tapkins standing in a doorway at left.

Associated names
Ray, Gordon Norton, 1915-1986, former owner.
Classification
Department
Century prints