拍品 9
  • 9

TENNIEL, 'AU REVOIR!', PENCIL, 1881

估價
700 - 900 GBP
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描述

  • Tenniel, John
  • ‘Au Revoir!’(‘WEG (outside the House of Lords, singing confidently): “He will return – I know him well –”’)
203 by 159mm., pencil, signed with monogram and dated 1881, inscribed with title and publication details on original mount, signed and inscribed ‘an original sketch for the Punch cartoon’ on a label on reverse of original mount, mounted, framed and glazed

來源

Mary Green (nee Tenniel), the artist's sister and thence by descent EXHIBITED:
‘The Illustrators, The British Art of Illustration 1870-2010’, Chris Beetles Gallery, 2010, no 54; ‘Three Centuries of Cartoon Art’, Nunnington Hall, April-June 2011

出版

Punch, 6 August 1881, Page 55

Condition

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拍品資料及來源

Gladstone’s Irish Land Bill had passed the Commons, and gone up to the Lords, where it was suspected, not without reason, it would be considerably modified. The words Gladstone is singing are from a favourite drawing-room song entitled 'The Forsaken'.