Toby Weller

Description 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.

Exhibitions

• Private Lives: Nineteenth Century American Genre Drawings. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. 1994-1995.

Provenance William T. Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1894, by inheritance; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.

Inscriptions [Signature and date] Lower left: F.O.C. Darley 1888; [Inscription] Verso: The property of Mr. F.O.C. Darley; [Label] The Pickwick Papers, Hurd and Houghton Edition, 1866, Ch. XX, Scene in the Inn, Magpie and Stump. Toby Weller, stage driver in one of the boxes.

Credit Acquired by William T. Walters