Every day Sophie Dupre presents two items from her large stock of signed photographs, autograph letters, autographs for sale, royal memoralbilia and antiquarian manuscripts.
The photographs are presented with the catalogue descriptions.
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February 03
On this day in 1882 the famous Circus owner Phineas T Barnum bought his world famous elephant Jumbo and in 1894 Norman Rockwell, the American artist/illustrator was born.
BARNUM (Phineas T., 1810-1891, American Showman, Founder of the Barnum and Bailey Circus)
Excellent cabinet photo by Eisenmann in New York signed, showing him head and shoulders full face, as an elderly man, 6½” x 4¼”, New York, no date but circa 1870
ROCKWELL (Norman, 1894-1978, American Artist and Illustrator)
Excellent collage cartoon portrait in colour, signed by Rockwell and inscribed “Faithfully yours” below Rockwell’s drawing in the space left by the cartoonist of one of the dogs for which Rockwell was famous, someone has tied a tin can to the dog’s tail, the string winding round Rockwell’s signature, and showing Rockwell full length, full face, his hand resting on the top of the drawing, his jacket, trousers, suede shoes and enormous bow tie all cleverly picked out in real cloth, laid down on the back of the mount is an excellent newspaper obituary of Rockwell, showing him at work, the cartoon 10” x 7¾” on mount 15½” x 11¾”, no place, 1941
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