Love’s Labor Lost

Love’s Labor Lost. From English Society. Sketched by George du Maurier. Click on image to enlarge it.

“Oh, papa, we’ve all quite made up our minds never to marry, now we’ve got this beautiful house and garden!

(Papa has taken this beautiful house and garden solely with the view of tempting eligible young men to come and play lawn-tennis, etc., etc.)

Selected du Maurier Cartoons on Courtship & Marriage

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 1 May 2020