Queen Prima Donna at Home, for "Punch," November 7, 1874
Medium
Pen and carbon black ink over graphite on card
Dimensions
Sheet: 11 9/16 × 10 3/4 in. (29.4 × 27.3 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Bequest of James David Draper, from the Robert Isaacson Collection, 2019
Accession Number
2021.15.13
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...