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
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