George Du Maurier - Picture Sunday
Piers Sopeley (Explaining his picture): 'It's just a realistic allegory, too sadly typical, alas! of our own time. It illustrates the fading away of art, love, and sincerity in the foul miasma of worldly success!'
Mrs Ponsonby de Tompkyns: 'How lovely! How true!! And oh, what a lesson for us all!'
Snarle: 'Not in Painting!'
Picture Sunday
Piers Sopeley (Explaining his picture): 'It's just a realistic allegory, too sadly typical, alas! of our own time. It illustrates the fading away of art, love, and sincerity in the foul miasma of worldly success!'
Mrs Ponsonby de Tompkyns: 'How lovely! How true!! And oh, what a lesson for us all!'
Snarle: 'Not in Painting!'
George Du Maurier (1834-1896)
Price
£1,750
Signed
Signed, inscribed with title and dated 'March 86'
Medium
Ink
Dimensions
5 ½ x 8 ¼
inches
Illustrated
Punch, 10 april 1886, page 174
Exhibited
'The Illustrators. The British Art of Illustration 1800-1999', Chris Beetles Gallery, London, 1999, no 62
![Sympathetic Egoism of Genius (A Study)
'Don't run away yet, old man! It's quite early, and I want to hear all about your Academy Picture, which I'm told is splendid.'
[Proceeds to describe his own at great length, and then suddenly finds out how late it is, and bolts...]](https://chrisbeetles.com/storage/33514/conversions/17voec3tja08-masonry.jpg)
