Stampa, G.L., Sambourne, Linley, and Du Maurier, George, etc.

Stampa, G.L. "Study for an illustration to a story", 258 x 121mm., signed and dated "Dec 1903"; "The Amateur Detective", 357 x 263mm., signed and dated 1917, some light browning; "Mistress (improving the shining hour): Remember... [&c.]", 257 x 370mm., signed and dated 1929; "Attachment", 257 x 370mm., signed and dated 1933; Sambourne, Linley. "Punch Almanack", 335 x 254mm., signed and dated "November 1899"; [Untitled], 240 x 187mm., signed and dated "July 1891"; Du Maurier, George. "A Vocation", 133 x 117mm., signed; Thomas, Bert. "The New Minister: Boy o’ye no’ kien it’s rge Sawbath? [&c.]", 339 x 235mm., signed and inscribed "Bert Thomas | to dear George Stampa 1920"; Shepherd, J.A. [Untitled], 248 x 190mm., initialled and with an inscription in the form of a letter "To George" addressed from "Starkhill Cottage", some tearing in line with a previous fold; together with a further work by J.A. Shepherd and one other; mostly pen and ink, all framed and glazed (11)

All cartoonists for Punch, several of these illustrations were published, namely Du Maurier's "A Vocation" (23 Feburary 1878, p.83), Sambourne's design for the 1900 Almanack (5 December 1899), Stampa's "The Amateur Detectives" (1 August 1917, p.81) and Thomas' "New Minister" (28 January 1920, p.65).