Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:
June 1921
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/496
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue: Sotheby's. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    89/100 page 61
    SIZES MIXED ee Second Day CARICATURES, &c. BY GHEORGHE CRUIKSHANK. 404 Napoleon. Boney’s Meditations on the Island of St. Helena, or The Devil addressing the Sun, coloured * .* Tn his catalogue of the Truman collection Mr. Bruton described this as the finest of the caricatures on Napoleon, and as very rare. (See his notes on the back of this impression). 405 Stops (from the Truman collection, with his note “extremely rare, Sound after 17 years’ collecting”); The Tail of the Comet of 1853, both coloured (2) 406 Travelling in France, first state; Travelling in England, first state ; An Election Ball, two impressions; Game of Chess, 22 all five coloured and one plain (6) 407 ‘Ten Pencil Sketches and a Coloured Drawing, by G. C.; Eight Impressions of the Etching by G. C. to illustrate his description of the process of etching; I’'wo Portraits and Photographs, and Newspaper Articles relating to G. C. a parcel 408 Picture of London, aclever Pen-and-ink Drawing (coloured), by F. W. Pailthorpe, after G. C.; a Coloured Etching of The Conundrum, so cleverly copied by Pailthorpe that Cruikshank has signed it as his own; from the Truman collection (2) 409 A Box, made from the timber of H.M.S. “Royal George,” 43 in. by Ds ° ° . 66 y 1 Ss 23 in. by \yin., inscribed “To G. CRUIKSHANK FROM THE OLD a 5 ‘ 5 8G : 5 5 SAILOR ” (7.e. Capt. Barker, author of ~ Greenwich Hospital ”’) DRAWINGS BY GEORGE CRUIKSHANK. FRAMED. 410 For Three Courses and a Dessert—Lemons, drawing in pen and ink, Tin. by 44in., signed; and Proof of Woodeut; both on sunk mounts, in one frame 411 A FINE WATER-COLOUR DRAWING: SIR JOHN FALSTAFF, KNIGHT, a full-length portrait, seated, with one harid on staff, the sack placed on a table, 64 in. by 44 in., signed 412 A FINE WATER-COLOUR DRawine: THE Last Screnr IN THE Lire OF Sirk JOHN Faustrarr, Henry V, Act 2nd, Scene 3rd, 4h in. by 64in., signed *,* This was the last purchase made by Mr. Bruton from Messrs. Sotheby. [See ILLUSTRATION ].
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