"Barrington bore it all with exemplary patience", 1878/1879

Not on View

Medium

pen and brown ink with graphite on heavy wove paper

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.)

Credit Line

Joseph F. McCrindle Collection

Accession Number

2009.70.110

Artists / Makers

George Du Maurier (artist) British, 1834 - 1896

Image Use

This image is in the public domain.
Read our full Open Access policy for images .

Inscription

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)

Provenance

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

Associated Names

Fry
McCrindle, Joseph F.

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).