Mr Briggs Contemplates a Day’s Fishing
1850s
Pen, ink and watercolour over pencil on paper mounted on card
240.5 x 299 mm
Mr Briggs stands on a table in a disordered room; his fishing line knocks objects from the mantel-piece. Mrs Briggs and their two children survey the disarray with varied expressions. A slightly different version of this scene was published in Punch, XIX, 1850, p. 226. Also see the related coloured etching in the Barber collection (No.44.8).
Purchased 1944 (No.44.7)