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Mamma: 'Not Kiss Professor Jackson, Lucy? Why Not?' – Lucy: 'He's Got Such a Stubbly Beard Mamma, and It Pricks So! Now I Don't Mind Captain Thompson's Moustache! Do You?'

George Du Maurier (1834-1896)

SIGNED
PEN INK AND PENCIL SKETCH OF OLD WOMAN FLIRTING WITH PIANIST ON REVERSE
PEN AND INK
5 X 7 3/4 INCHES
PROVENANCE: J LEGER & SON, LONDON, DECEMBER 1960
ILLUSTRATED: PUNCH, 6 JULY 1878, PAGE 306
EXHIBITED: IRISH INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION, 1907, NO 543
(LENT BY MRS STEWART HODGSON);
'THE ILLUSTRATORS. THE BRITISH ART OF ILLUSTRATION
1880-2017', NOVEMBER 2017-JANUARY 2018, NO 45

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£1,750

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