"Now, Now, Now!" said Augustine. "Now, Now, Now, Now, Now!"
Date1926
Artist
Wallace Morgan
(American illustrator, 1873–1949)
Illustration Citation"Mulliner's Buck-U-Uppo," by P. G. Woodhouse, in Liberty Magazine, September 4, 1926
MediumCrayon and ink wash on illustration board
Dimensionscomposition: 16 9/16 × 16 1/2 in. (42.1 × 41.9 cm)
sheet: 19 7/8 × 18 1/2 in. (50.5 × 47 cm)
sheet: 19 7/8 × 18 1/2 in. (50.5 × 47 cm)
Credit LineAcquired by exchange, 1974
Object number1974-38
On View
Not on viewClassificationsDRAWING
Label TextAugustine (in center) is a meek curate in love with the vicar's daughter but is afraid to approach her father. When Augustine samples some Mulliner's Buck-U-Uppo, a tonic designed - he believes - to embolden even the most timid person, he becomes so self-confident that he settles an argument between the bishop and the vicar, thereby winning the latter's permisison to marry his daughter. Wallace Morgan excelled at graphic media. He did not use photographs in his illustration, noting that "I'll be damned if I'll use a camera...they never do me justice."
Henrietta McCaig Starrett
1930