Lot Details & Additional Photographs
(19) single sheets or single folded sheets, with sketches (mostly figural and architectural) and handwritten notes and letters with sketches (none appear to be signed), all composed in pencil and/or ink; includes a letter on Cruikshank's embossed emblematic stationary addressed from 263 Hampstead Road in London where the artist lived from 1850 until 1878, a note that seems to reference his anti-alcohol views, and a note that references Cruikshank's work
The Worship of Bacchus (1860-2) at the Tate in London: "Many thanks for your patronage of my "Bacchus" but many more for your kind note and...friendship -- which I have always felt to be mutual." Cruikshank's handwriting throughout, with occasional writing in another hand possibly suggesting that the artist re-used older scraps of paper. Also included in the lot are two envelopes with one addressed from autograph dealer Reginald Atkinson, dated 1925, and marked "Cruikshank Scraps and Sketches," and the other from Sotheby's, New York; all items loose and held in sleeves in (2) red folders.
Various sizes; smallest 4 1/2 x 6 in.; largest 13 x 8 1/4 in.
George Cruikshank was a London-based artist best known for his caricatures and for illustrating several novels by Charles Dickens.
Most with typical age and handling wear such as toning and an occasional small stain, spot of foxing, light grime, chip, fold, or tear; a few with small losses; one with remnants of red seals and associated losses; one folded sheet torn with large loss.
