Say, you're a precious pair of idiots!
Date1900
Artist
George Hand Wright
(American illustrator and painter, 1872–1951)
Illustration Citation"Brown, the Butler," by Ethel Hobart, in Munsey's Magazine, January 1901
MediumInk and watercolor on illustration board
Dimensions24 3/8 × 18 7/8 in. (61.9 × 47.9 cm)
frame: 29 × 23 in. (73.7 × 58.4 cm)
frame: 29 × 23 in. (73.7 × 58.4 cm)
Credit LineGift of Dr. and Mrs. Joseph Sataloff, 1979
Object number1979-40
On View
Not on viewClassificationsDRAWING
Label TextThis illustration depicts a humorous story about a college student who poses as a butler (man at right) as part of his initiation into a fraternity. Here, the "butler" and the fraternity brother on his right make so much noise in the garden that they are discovered by two of the deceived family members. George Hand Wright prospered as an illustrator in New York after studies in Philadelphia, Paris, and Munich. For many years, he worked in Westport, Connecticut, an artists' colony which many illustrators favored for its proximity to New York and its supportive environment.
