"--And mist or glim, I'd sail with him, if he would sail with me--"
George Du Maurier
c. 1865
Medium
pen and black ink over graphite with scratching out on wove paper
Dimensions
overall: 25.3 x 35.4 cm (9 15/16 x 13 15/16 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of William B. O'Neal
Accession Number
1995.52.44
About the Artist
George Du Maurier · 1834–1896
George Louis Palmella Busson du Maurier (1834–1896) was a French-born British illustrator, cartoonist, and novelist whose sharp wit captured the absurdities of Victorian society. Born in Paris to Louis-Mathurin Busson du Maurier and Ellen Clarke—daughter of the notorious Regency courtesan Mary Anne Clarke—he grew up immersed in a fabricated family lore of aristocratic émigrés, though his grandfath...