Too Considerate. From English Society. Sketched by George du Maurier. Click on image to enlarge it.
Mrs. Brown—“Oh, Mrs. Smith, do have that sweet baby of yours brought down to show my husband. He’s never seen it.
Mr. Brown.—“Oh, pray, don’t trouble on my account.”
The people in Too Considerate do not seem as well drawn as in most of du Maurier’s other cartoons (perhaps that’s the fault of the engraver, Swain), but the details in this scene of upper-middle class people having tea together are well done: the small table on which sits the tea pot, the Aesthetic movement screen at the left,and the pictures and plant in the center background.
Unlucky Speeches, Ill-Considered Utterances, and Things One Could Wish to Have Expressed Otherwise
- "Those Infelicitious Speeches"
- "Taking One Too Much at One's Word"
- "Neighbourly Compliments"
- "Unlucky Speeches"
- "An Unappreciated Compliment"
- "Things One Could Wish to Have Expressed Otherwise"
- "Things One Would Have Expressed Differently"
- "Things One Would Have Expressed Differently" (2)
- "Things One Would Have Expressed Differently" (4)
- "Ill-Considered Utterances"
- "An Equivocal Compliment"
- "Too Kind by Half"
- "An Infelicitious Speech"
- "Consolation"
- "Infelicitious Queries"
Scanned image and text by George P. Landow [You may use this image without prior permission for any scholarly or educational purpose as long as you (1) credit the person who scanned the image and (2) link your document to this URL in a web document or cite the Victorian Web in a print one.]
Bibliography
English Society. Sketched by George du Maurier. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1897.
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Last modified 30 April 2020