'Whenever Orders Are Received from Parties Painfully Bereaved' –
Visitor (to friend lately left a widower): 'Hello, Tom! that looks a stiffish bill you've got there!'
Tom: 'Ah, how those rascals of undertakers do fleece you! They know you can hardly help your self! Of course, in my poor wife's case I would cheerfully have paid double. but one hates to be done. – um!'
Charles Keene (1823-1891)
Price
£750
Signed
With the stamp of the Thomas Esmond Lowinsky Collection
Medium
Ink
Dimensions
5 x 4
inches
Provenance
Thomas Esmond Lowinsky; Miss Ethel Sands
Illustrated
Punch, 8 December 1877, page 253 (in reverse)
Thomas Esmond Lowinsky was the artist and great collector of Charles Keene.