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            George Du Maurier
      
            1834-1896
      
            Tantaene animis celestibus irae! / DM.
[London : s.n., 1868?]
      
            wood engraving
      
            image: 112 x 175 mm; sheet: 197 x 271 mm
      
            Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
      
            1986.1172 
      
  Notes
              Caption continues: Late, late, too late; the guests depart, and, oh distressful thing! Two celebrated vocalists have not been asked to sing! From distant corners, darting swift, they rush to reach the pianner, and meet upon the music-stool in this unseemly manner! An instrumental gentleman, facetiously inclined, doth stick and stand and stare at 'em, and thus he speaks his mind: "The tenor and the baritone are fighting for the crown; I'd like to kick the baritone, and knock the tenor down!"
Title from published caption.
Proof of a wood engraving after an illustration by Du Maurier for Punch, Feb. 29, 1868, p. 92.
          Title from published caption.
Proof of a wood engraving after an illustration by Du Maurier for Punch, Feb. 29, 1868, p. 92.
Provenance
              From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
              Cartoon shows two men fighting for the possession of the sheet music and the piano stool at a fashionable party.
Associated names
              Ray, Gordon Norton, 1915-1986, former owner.
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          Classification
              
          Department
              
          Century prints
              
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