Happy Thought!
Mrs Triplets: 'and How Is Your Concert Getting On, Herr Pfeiffer?'
Eminent Violinist: 'Pudiful, as Far as De Brogramme Is Goncerned - Beethoven - Schumann - Brahms! but Ze Dickets Don't Zell! Ach! Py Ze Vay, Mrs Triplets, You Don't Happen to Haf Zoch a Zing as a Moozicalish Infantile Venomenon Apout You Zat You Could Lend Me For Ze Occasion - Ja? Gonzertina! - Pantscho! - Pones! - Gomb! - Anyzing Vill Blease Ze Pritish Boplic, if Ze Berformer Is Onter Vife Years Olt!'
George Du Maurier (1834-1896)
Price
£950
Signed
Signed Inscribed with title below mount
Medium
Pen and ink
Dimensions
4 ½ x 7 ¼
inches
Illustrated
Punch, 30 June 1888, Volume 94, Page 306
Exhibited
'The Illustrators, The British Art of Illustration 1800-1997', Chris Beetles Gallery, November 1997-January 1998, No 81