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Distinguished Amateurs - the Musical Duchess Behold Her Grace rehearsing for an afternoon concert at Mrs Ponsonby De Tomkyns's, before an appreciative audience, which consists of the Host and Hostess, and a few professionals who have been retained to play Her Grace's Obligato Accompaniments. Her Grace always sings her own words, set to her own music. Her compositions are endless; and when once she begins, she doesn't like to leave off in a hurry. The worst of it is, Her Grace's music invariably driven all the other duchesses away – only Mrs P De T Is not yet aware of this.

George Du Maurier (1834-1896)

Price
£1,750
Signed
Signed
Indistinctly inscribed with title and 'part 2' and dated 1881 below mount
Medium
Ink
Dimensions
6 x 9 ¼ inches
Illustrated
Punch, 21 May 1881, page 234
Exhibited
'The British Art of Illustration, 1800-1999, Chris Beetles Gallery, no 57;
'Three Centuries of Cartoon Art',Nunnington Hall, April-June 2011
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