This drawing is one of the comical “Elephant Sketches” DGR made for Fanny Cornforth. Like the related sketch
Money to the House, this “refers to the ‘Elephant's Hole’ where Fanny kept the money Rossetti sent her which she was able to save”
(see
Elzea, The Samuel and Mary R. Bancroft Jr. and Related Pre–Raphaelite Collections, 122
).
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Delaware drawing
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Introduction
This drawing is one of the comical “Elephant Sketches” DGR made for Fanny Cornforth. Like the related sketch Money to the House, this “refers to the ‘Elephant's Hole’ where Fanny kept the money Rossetti sent her which she was able to save” (see Elzea, The Samuel and Mary R. Bancroft Jr. and Related Pre–Raphaelite Collections, 122 ).