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George Du Maurier
1834-1896
Gentle rebuke / DM.
[London : s.n., 1865?]
wood engraving
image: 114 x 175 mm; sheet: 170 x 237 mm
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
1986.1237
Notes
Title from published caption.
Caption continues: Old Gentleman. "How charmingly that young lady sings! Pray, who composed the beautiful song she has just favoured us with?" Lady of the house. "Oh, it is by Mendelssohn." Old Gentleman. "Ah! One of his famous 'songs without words,' I suppose." (Moral. -- Young ladies, when you sing, pronounce your words carefully, and then you will not expose unmusical old gentlemen to making such a ridiculous mistake as the above).
Proof of a wood engraving after an illustration by Du Maurier for Punch, June 24, 1865, p. 254.
Caption continues: Old Gentleman. "How charmingly that young lady sings! Pray, who composed the beautiful song she has just favoured us with?" Lady of the house. "Oh, it is by Mendelssohn." Old Gentleman. "Ah! One of his famous 'songs without words,' I suppose." (Moral. -- Young ladies, when you sing, pronounce your words carefully, and then you will not expose unmusical old gentlemen to making such a ridiculous mistake as the above).
Proof of a wood engraving after an illustration by Du Maurier for Punch, June 24, 1865, p. 254.
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Cartoon shows a party where a young woman sits at the piano, attended by a young man, while the hostess sits in the foreground, engaged in conversation with an elderly gentleman.
Associated names
Ray, Gordon Norton, 1915-1986, former owner.
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Classification
Department
Century prints
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