"Number One" Bridegroom (on their way to Paris): "You're sure you're quite warm and comfortable love?" Bride: "Oh yes, dear - quite." Bridegroom: "I don't like to see you sitting with your back to the esquire, darling. You don't feel any draught?"... – Works

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"Number One" Bridegroom (on their way to Paris): "You're sure you're quite warm and comfortable love?" Bride: "Oh yes, dear - quite." Bridegroom: "I don't like to see you sitting with your back to the esquire, darling. You don't feel any draught?"...

Charles Samuel Keene (English, 1823–1891)

Medium/Technique Wood engraving; burnished India proof

Credit Line John H. and Ernestine A. Payne Fund

Accession Number55.2460

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

DescriptionBride: "Oh, not the slightest!" Bridegroom: (who does!) "Then sweetest, would you mind changing places - !!!" Illustration to "Punch" volume 94, p.70

Signed Signed

Inscriptions"CK, lower right"

ProvenanceHarold Hartley, England (1851-1943): to Sir Harold Hartley, London, England (1878-1972); from whom purchased by MFA April 14,1955.