Mrs. Perkins's Ball by William Makepeace Thackeray
Mrs. Perkins's Ball by William Makepeace Thackeray
Mrs. Perkins's Ball by William Makepeace Thackeray

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Chapman & Hall, c.1854. Pseudonym M.A. Titmarsh.

Inscribed by artist James Abbott McNeill Whistler to Elias Glenn Perine, 1855. Includes 1860 London Times newspaper article about Whistler's rise to fame. Enoch Pratt Free Library, Baltimore, Maryland discard stamp.

Elias Glenn Perine was the godson of Whistler's mother, Anna Matilda McNeill Whistler.

  • Subject Matter: Genre, humor
  • Collections: Rare Books

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