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George Du Maurier
1834-1896
Wedding gifts / Du Maurier.
[London : s.n., 1878?]
wood engraving
image: 113 x 183 mm; sheet: 229 x 271 mm
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
1986.1226
Notes
Title from published caption.
Caption continues: Bride. "Oh, Mamma! - See what's just come!" Mamma. "Charming! - How kind of them! Who sent it?" Bride. "Oh, I didn't look. But it makes No. 248!" Sister (who is writing out the list of presents). "249, Darling: 248 came just after lunch!"
Proof on India paper of a wood engraving after an illustration by Du Maurier for Punch's almanack for 1879.
Caption continues: Bride. "Oh, Mamma! - See what's just come!" Mamma. "Charming! - How kind of them! Who sent it?" Bride. "Oh, I didn't look. But it makes No. 248!" Sister (who is writing out the list of presents). "249, Darling: 248 came just after lunch!"
Proof on India paper of a wood engraving after an illustration by Du Maurier for Punch's almanack for 1879.
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Cartoon shows a bride and her family in a room surrounded by gifts.
Associated names
Ray, Gordon Norton, 1915-1986, former owner.
Artist
Classification
Department
Century prints
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