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.

Positively the last of the long skirts this season / DM.

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George Du Maurier
1834-1896

Positively the last of the long skirts this season / DM.

[London : s.n., 1867?]
wood engraving
image: 115 x 174 mm; sheet: 203 x 271 mm
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
1986.1155
Notes
Caption continues: Hostess. "Oh, how tiresome! Somebody must be standing on my dress! Would you just run down-stairs, and see who it is, Mr. Brown?".
Title from published caption.
Proof of a wood engraving after an illustration by Du Maurier for Punch, Aug. 10, 1867, p. 56.
Provenance

From the library of Gordon N. Ray.

Summary

Cartoon shows a fashionably dressed lady holding a fan and standing by an open door with her dress trailing through the doorway as she addresses a young man.

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