George Du Maurier - Hardly Consistent!
Brown (to Smith): 'Ugh! There Goes Jones, as Usual, with a Crowd of Adoring Duchesses Hanging On His Lips, and Grovelling At His Feet, and Following Him All over the Room! How Disgusting It Is to See a Man of Talent Toadying Up to the Aristocracy Like That!'
Hardly Consistent!
Brown (to Smith): 'Ugh! There Goes Jones, as Usual, with a Crowd of Adoring Duchesses Hanging On His Lips, and Grovelling At His Feet, and Following Him All over the Room! How Disgusting It Is to See a Man of Talent Toadying Up to the Aristocracy Like That!'
George Du Maurier (1834-1896)
Price
£3,500
Signed
Signed Signed and inscribed with title on mount
Medium
Ink
Dimensions
5 x 8
inches
Illustrated
Punch, 23 February 1889, page 90; George Du Maurier, Society Pictures Drawn by George Du Maurier, Selected from 'Punch', London: Bradbury Agnew & Co, volume II, page 51
Exhibited
'The Illustrators. The British Art of Illustration 1800-1998', Chris Beetles Gallery, London, 1998, no 217; 'The Illustrators. The British Art of Illustration, 1800-1999', Chris Beetles Gallery, London, 1999, no 58; 'The Long Nineteenth Century: Treasures and Pleasures', March-April 2014, no 121
![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)
