Henry Tonks

ILLUSTRATION FOR THE 'LOVERS OF ORELAY' BY GEORGE MOORE

1862-1937

Mary Hutchinson posed for Henry Tonks’s comic, Boucher-esque illustrations of ‘The Lovers of Orelay’, a somewhat scandalous episode in the autobiography, Memoirs of My Dead Life, first published in 1906, by his good friend, the Irish author George Moore.
signed with initials and dedicated
pencil and chalk on card
25.5 by 39.5cm.; 10¼ by 15½in.