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Our foreign critics! (A sketch near Leicester Square)
1880
study for cartoon for Punch magazine
Medium
pen and brown ink over pencil
Measurements
11.7 × 18.2 cm irreg. (image) 25.3 × 35.6 cm (sheet)
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Presented by the Joint Trustees of the Late G. du Maurier, 1931
Gallery location
Not on display
Artwork Details
Place/s of Execution
London, England
Inscription
inscribed in pen and brown ink (in image) u.r.: DU MAURIER.
inscribed in pen and brown ink l.c.: “ Ces Messieurs du Pavé!” (a sketch near Leicester Square) / MM. Crache-en-l’air, Suce-Rogomme and Bibi-le-Pétroleur beguile the weary hour with tales of / it seems, alas! that all the love and all the admiration is on the side of the ladies — and no wonder! (and all the admiration crossed out) / For according to M. Ernest Guillemot, who, having also not spent ten years in our midst, has thought it to publish his / experiences, the Daughters of Alb(…illeg.) are far from prepossessing – there are perhaps a dozen beauties in England, (there are perhaps a dozen beauties in England, crossed out) / and not one pretty woman in fifty – they have all (…illeg.) hands, turned up at the end, a flat thick foot, (and not one pretty woman in fifty crossed out) / are red-nosed, dull-eyed & swelled of eyelid, and dress in frightful taste; a respirator, spectacles / and a knitted comforter being almost their only wear, / indeed they grew so passionately fond of the truthful & chin (…illeg.), but too seductive Ernest, that (truthful & crossed out) / he has had more than once to protect himself against their advances with his cane……. / (“Old England”, by Ernest Guillemot (four strikes through whole inscription)
inscribed in pencil u.r.: 1/2 page
inscribed (diagonally) in pen and brown ink c.r.: “CES MESSIEURS DU PAVÉ!” / MM.CRACHE-EN-L’AIR / SUCE-ROGOMME / BIBI-LE-PÉTROLEUR / Ernest Guillemot (whole inscription crossed out)
inscribed in pen and brown ink c.r.: 1/2 page - / Legend rewritten & sent / to M. Brightmore by post. / I send legend in envelope.
inscribed (diagonally) in pencil l.r.: page 87. (underlined) / Feby 28/80
Accession Number
4556-3
Department
International Prints and Drawings
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Subjects (general)
Cityscapes Human Figures Humour and Satire
Subjects (specific)
beauty cartoons (humorous images) discussions (events) London (inhabited place) men (male humans) pedestrians street scenes studies (visual works)
Movements
Victorian