Trials of a Painter’s Wife. From English Society. Sketched by George du Maurier. This cartoon represents another version of du Maurier’s Unlucky Speeches and Ill-Considered Utterances. Click on image to enlarge it.
Sir Binks who always prides himself on saying the right thing: — “what I like so much about the milk maid, dontcherknow, is that your husband hasn't fallen to the usual mistake of painting the lady dressed up in milkmaid’s clothes! She's so understandably a milkmaid and nothing else, dontcherknow!”
The Painter’s Wife: — “I'm so glad you think so . . . he painted her from me!”
Details
- The picture in question in which the figures wear eighteenth-century clothing
- DuMaurier’s signature (lower right corner)
- Heads of the three people closest to the artist’s wife
What Artists and Their Families Have to Put Up With
- Equal to the Occasion
- How Reputations of Distinguished Amateurs are Sometimes Made
- Precedence in Vanity Fair
- Two on a Tower
- Nature versus Art
- Artistic Amenities
- Distinguished Professionals
- Social Taradiddles
- What Our Artist Has to Put Up With
- The Mother of Invention
- Varnishing Day at the Royal Academy
Looking at Works of Art
- Professional Beauties of the Past
- Flunkyana
- A New Reading of a Famous Picture
- At the R. A. -- Triumph of Realistic Art
- Instinctive Critical Acumen [Moses Striking the Rock]
Scanned image and text by George P. Landow [You may use this image without prior permission for any scholarly or educational purpose as long as you (1) credit the person who scanned the image and (2) link your document to this URL in a web document or cite the Victorian Web in a print one.]
Bibliography
English Society. Sketched by George du Maurier. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1897.
Created 1 July 2001
Last modified 22 April 2020