A Damper. George du Maurier Punch 71 (2 September 1876): 92. Click on image to enlarge it.
Boniface Brasenose (and amiable what aesthetic youth, exhibiting his Art-treasures). “That's–a-a–Mother and Child–a-a–Fifteenth Century —”
Fashionable Lady. “I should have thought it earlier!”
Boniface Brasenose . “May I ask why?”
Fashionable Lady. Oh, I should have thought they could paint better than that, so late as the Fifteenth Century!”
du Maurier, who signs his name on the long horizontal picture in the background, dresses the young æsthete in Oscar Wilde's velvet jacket and breeches, and his room has the usual Arts and Crafts decorations: the screen at right behind the gentleman holding his top hat, the vase with flowers, and the small glass or ceramic objects on the shelf in the corner.
What Artists and Their Families Have to Put Up With
- "Equal to the Occasion"
- "Trials of a Painter's Wife"
- "Histrionic Egotism [an actor's self-centeredness]"
- "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"
- "A Damper"
- "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]
- A Damper
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Bibliography
Punch. Hathi Trust Digital Library online version of a copy in the University of California Library. Web. 4 May 2020.
Last modified 4 May 2020