Jack B. Yeats, R.H.A.

The Dawson Gallery, Dublin, where purchased and thence by descent to the present owner

Hilary Pyle, The Different Worlds of Jack B. Yeats: His Cartoons and Illustrations, Irish Academic Press, Dublin, 1994, no.671, p.121.

The paper has discoloured and the colours have slightly faded. The edges are scuffed, notably to the centre of the left edge where there is a small part of the surface missing and there is an old vertical tear approx. 4in. long running along the bottom left edge, otherwise in original condition. Held in a simple plaster gilt frame with canvas inset under glass; unexamined out of frame.
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Executed circa 1900, the present work possibly belongs to a series of works for an unpublished book entitled Pastimes of the Londoners.