CRUIKSHANK
(George, 1792-1878, Artist & Caricaturist, Illustrator of Dickens)
Wood engraving, bearing his engraved signature,
titled "Dog-days - Legislation going to the dogs", showing two dogs as 'swells' smoking cigars and pouring scorn on their hard working fellows, of whom two are pulling a hardware cart from "Houndsditch", one of the latter says angrily that "dog Billy has grown so proud that he has declined to kill any more Rats!!", according to his cousin "from Barking", in the background are two other conversations involving a lap-dog, a guard-dog and a dancing-dog, 1 side 3¼" x 5¼" in margins 4¼" x 6½", verso blank, no place, no date, circa
light brown mark in blank left margin, closed tear in bottom edge reaching a short way into the image, tiny defect in one blank corner
Item Date:
1844
Stock No:
53032
£35
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CUST
(Sir Lionel, 1859-1929, Director of the National Portrait Gallery 1895-1909)
Autograph Letter Signed to 'Dear Kate',
saying he has "one set of the Fisher photographs ... I have asked Dr. Williamson to let you know who photographed them, and if the negatives are my property", and that he will "present them to your mother en pleine amitié, and she can print as many as she likes. There is no portrait of Frances Sidney in the royal collections", and hoping that "the A.S.A. ... have chosen a good" portrait of Sir Philip Sidney from Penshurst to reproduce, he and Sybil "have just got our little chorister home, which is a great joy to us", embossed royal arms and 'Windsor Castle' in heading, 2 sides 8vo., Oliphant House, Windsor, 29th December
Item Date:
1905
Stock No:
14857
£45
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DAVIS
(Henry William Banks, 1833-1914, J.P., R.A.)
Autograph Letter Signed to 'Dear Clarke',
(possibly Sir Campbell Clarke, 1835-1902), saying "your picture is in a first rate place in No 6 Room ... Your Varnishing is on Monday", 1 side 8vo, Royal Academy, London, W., Good Friday, n.y., c.
subscription cut and rather untidily re-joined with old stamp paper
Item Date:
1895
Stock No:
17039
£15
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DAVIS
(Henry William Banks, 1833-1914, Artist, J.P., R.A.)
Signature from the end of a letter to E. Morland Agnew,
n.d., c.
laid down
Item Date:
1890
Stock No:
19649
£10
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DAVIS
(Henry William Banks, 1833-1914, R.A., landscape and animal painter)
Autograph Letter Signed to Mr Hopkins,
saying how pleased he should have been "to have paid you & your trout a visit with Pettie [John, R.A.]", he details his forthcoming travels to "Warwickshire ... possibly Wales" then "France & ... Scotland", 2 sides 8vo., 18 St. John's Wood Road, no date, c.
Item Date:
1890
Stock No:
19249
£65
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