Social Agonies
Young Husband. 'Yes, Aunty, I flatter myself the room looks pretty well – but, my dear Ellen, where, in the name of Fortune, did you get those atrocious. vases? – they're a perfect eyesore!'
Young Wife: 'My dear Fred! What are you saying! Why, dear Aunty gave them to us! They're perfectly lovely!'
[Dear Ellen has just exhumed them from a cupboard, where they are always kept when Dear Aunty Is not expected].
George Du Maurier (1834-1896)
Price
£1,450
Signed
Signed Inscribed with title below mount
Medium
Ink
Dimensions
5 ¼ x 8 ¾
inches
Illustrated
Punch, 9 December 1884, 'Almanack For 1885'
Exhibited
'The Illustrators. The British Art of Illustration 1837-2012', Chris Beetles Gallery, November 2012 - January 2013, No 132