"Barrington bore it all with exemplary patience"
1878/1879
Medium
pen and brown ink with graphite on heavy wove paper
Dimensions
sheet: 22 x 30.2 cm (8 11/16 x 11 7/8 in.) image (6.4 cm of sheet width is folded under): 22 x 23.8 cm (8 11/16 x 9 3/8 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Joseph F. McCrindle Collection
Accession Number
2009.70.110
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...