AT-00002675
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"'The unwelcome hints of Mr. Shepherd, his Agent,' Chapter I" frontispiece for Jane Austen's Persuasion
Inscriptions
Signed lower right, in pen and black ink: "C.E.Brock . 1898"; inscribed, lower center: "'The unwelcome hints of Mr. Shepherd, his agent' / Chapter I"; further ink and graphite inscriptions in margins
Publications
Jane Austen, edited by Gerald Brimley Johnson, Persuasion, in Jane Austen's Novels, Volume X, (London: Dent, 1898), p. 8 (ill).
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Charles Edmund Brock / English, 1870-1938
- Date
- 1898
- Medium
- Pen and black ink with brush and watercolor, on ivory wove card
- Dimensions
- 29.8 × 22.2 cm (11 3/4 × 8 3/4 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- watercolor
- Place
- England
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Gift of James Deering
- Accession no.
- 1927.1623
Provenance
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Open-access museum record · AT-00002675
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