"Barrington bore it all with exemplary patience"

1878/1879

George Du Maurier

Artist, British, 1834 - 1896

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    pen and brown ink with graphite on heavy wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Joseph F. McCrindle Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 22 x 30.2 cm (8 11/16 x 11 7/8 in.)
    image (6.4 cm of sheet width is folded under): 22 x 23.8 cm (8 11/16 x 9 3/8 in.)

  • Accession

    2009.70.110

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Fry Gallery, London); Joseph F. McCrindle [1923-2008], New York, 1968; Joseph F. McCrindle Foundation, 2008; gift to NGA, 2009.

Associated Names

Bibliography

2012

  • Grasselli, Margaret M., and Arthur K. Wheelock, Jr., eds. The McCrindle Gift: A Distinguished Collection of Drawings and Watercolors. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art. Washington, 2012: 169 (color).

Inscriptions

by artist, lower right in pen and brown ink: Barrington bore it all with exemplary patience / P.7 Par VI / Mlle de Mersac / [Not deciphered]; by later hand, upper right on flap in graphite: [Not deciphered] (cut off) / Reduce [to?] 6 1/4; by later hand, lower center verso in pen and blue ink: [Not deciphered] (effaced)

Wikidata ID

Q64571350

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