Toby Weller
(18th and 19th Centuries )
Darley, a noted American illustrator, shows a stagecoach driver relaxing and enjoying his pipe. Toby Weller was a character in Charles Dickens' "The Pickwick Papers," first published in 1836/1837.
Inscription
Provenance
Provenance (from the French provenir, 'to come from/forth') is the chronology of the ownership, custody, or location of a historical object.
William T. Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1894, by inheritance; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
Exhibitions
1994-1995 | Private Lives: Nineteenth Century American Genre Drawings. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. |
Geographies
USA (Place of Origin)
Measurements
H: 20 x W: 16 1/16 in. (50.8 x 40.8 cm)
Credit Line
Acquired by William T. Walters
Location in Museum
Not on view
Accession Number
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In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
37.1583