signed
c.1880
by Home, Daniel Dunglas
c.1880. Original ink sketch by Daniel Dunglas Home.
Sketch measures ~ 8 7/8" x 5 3/4" and is signed and inscribed; small partial tears along left side (where paper was removed from a book); wear and age toning along edges (more pronounced along top edge) with a few minor chips; minor creasing to lower right corner with small partial tear. Shelved in Rockville Room B. Home was a Scottish spiritualist--a physical medium with the reported ability to levitate and speak with the dead--that conducted hundreds of seances in the 1800's. Napoleon III and Robert Browning are reported to have been among his clients. Harry Houdini described Hume as "one of the most conspicuous and lauded of his type and generation" and "the forerunner of the mediums whose forte is fleecing by presuming on the credulity of the public." 1380109. FP New Rockville Stock. (Inventory #: 1380109)
Sketch measures ~ 8 7/8" x 5 3/4" and is signed and inscribed; small partial tears along left side (where paper was removed from a book); wear and age toning along edges (more pronounced along top edge) with a few minor chips; minor creasing to lower right corner with small partial tear. Shelved in Rockville Room B. Home was a Scottish spiritualist--a physical medium with the reported ability to levitate and speak with the dead--that conducted hundreds of seances in the 1800's. Napoleon III and Robert Browning are reported to have been among his clients. Harry Houdini described Hume as "one of the most conspicuous and lauded of his type and generation" and "the forerunner of the mediums whose forte is fleecing by presuming on the credulity of the public." 1380109. FP New Rockville Stock. (Inventory #: 1380109)