Our Drawing-room Pets–with "Kangaroo Jim, the Champion Australian boomerang-thrower," for "Punch," July 2, 1887
Medium
Pen and brown ink
Dimensions
Image: 8 3/8 in. × 9 in. (21.2 × 22.8 cm) Sheet: 8 3/4 × 9 1/4 in. (22.2 × 23.5 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Roberta J.M. Olson and Alexander B.V. Johnson, 2017
Accession Number
2017.663.6
Tags
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...