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Crocodile

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Harry Furniss
1854-1925

Crocodile

4 1/2 x 9 inches (112 x 225 mm)
India ink on illustration board.
1983.102:6

Gift of John Hay Whitney.

Notes
One of 25 drawings preparatory for illustrations to Lewis Carroll's "Sylvie and Bruno" and "Sylvie and Bruno Concluded".
Lewis Carroll, "Sylvie and Bruno", v. 1, p. 229.
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed on mount, "... Oo never saw a Crocodile so proud! [Bruno is/ talking] Why, it could go round and walk on the top/ of its tail, and along its back, all the way to its head ..."
Associated names
Whitney, John Hay, former owner.
Carroll, Lewis, 1832-1898. Sylvie and Bruno.
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department