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The Ilyssus!

George Du Maurier · 1880

George Du Maurier: British, 1834 - 1896

UnclassifiedUnited Kingdom

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The Ilyssus!

1880

pen and brown ink over graphite with scratching-out on wove paper · National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

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Medium
pen and brown ink over graphite with scratching-out on wove paper
Dimensions
overall: 15.3 x 25.2 cm (6 x 9 15/16 in.)
Collection no.
1995.52.216
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By the artist
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George Du Maurier. The Ilyssus!. George Du Maurier; This file was donated to Wikimedia Commons as part of a project by the National Gallery of Art . Please see the Gallery's Open Access Policy .. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:George_Du_Maurier,_The_Ilyssus!,_1880,_NGA_75960.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.

Collection: National Gallery of Art

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The Ilyssus! — George Du Maurier. 1880.

Medium: pen and brown ink over graphite with scratching-out on wove paper.

Dimensions (museum labels retained): overall: 15.3 x 25.2 cm (6 x 9 15/16 in.).

Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1995.52.216. Gift of William B. O'Neal.

Museum holding does not establish current display.

Source: National Gallery of Art, CC0 collection metadata, retrieved 9 September 2026.

Location checked Sep 9, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.

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George Du Maurier. The Ilyssus!. George Du Maurier; This file was donated to Wikimedia Commons as part of a project by the National Gallery of Art . Please see the Gallery's Open Access Policy .. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:George_Du_Maurier,_The_Ilyssus!,_1880,_NGA_75960.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.