Victorian penwork on silk – punch cartoon ” AN INCURABLE “, c. 1890

$345.00 AUD

Victorian lace-edged silk placemat, used as a canvas by a talented artist to sketch out a domestic scene, inscribed:

” AN INCURABLE

Mamma. “Algernon, you great silly goose I am ashamed of you! To get into such a state about that odious little Miss Griggs! Why, she was dropping her H’s allover the room!”

Algernon. “Was she? I only wish I’d known it, I’d have picked ’em up- and kept ’em!”

Circa 1890

 

silk 21cm, frame 32.5cm

 

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