"The Woman That Was"
1826 to 1850
Medium
pen and brown ink with brown wash over graphite on wove paper
Dimensions
sheet (drawing): 21.7 × 21.5 cm (8 9/16 × 8 7/16 in.) sheet (text): 13.5 × 13.8 cm (5 5/16 × 5 7/16 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Joseph F. McCrindle Collection
Accession Number
2009.70.109
About the Artist
George Du Maurier · 1834–1896
George Louis Palmella Busson du Maurier (1834–1896) was a French-born British illustrator, cartoonist, and novelist whose sharp wit captured the absurdities of Victorian society. Born in Paris to Louis-Mathurin Busson du Maurier and Ellen Clarke—daughter of the notorious Regency courtesan Mary Anne Clarke—he grew up immersed in a fabricated family lore of aristocratic émigrés, though his grandfath...