Lot 42

Cruikshank (George) Archive of material by and relating to Cruikshank, collection comprises c. 60 drawings, sketches, letters and notes by Cruikshank, also letters to Cruikshank on a variety of subjects, also ephemera, 1843-78 (c. 150).

Hammer Price: £1,300

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Cruikshank (George, graphic artist, 1792-1878) Archive of material by and relating to Cruikshank, collection comprises c. 60 drawings, sketches, letters and notes by Cruikshank (drawings and sketches in black ink and pencil, many sketches on random notes), letters, including: draft of a letter to John B. Gough, temperance lecturer, ("I am going to write something abt. you in a little book I am about to publish"); notes, including: ("The Worship of Bacchus or The Drinking Customs of Society"; "22 India Proofs of the Etchings of Proofs of the work - The Omnibus & also 80 India Proofs of the wood cuts..."; "Quarrels over the Social Glass"); [list of accounts], together c. 150 items, letters to Cruikshank on a variety of subjects, including: Charles Rogers (1825-90, Church of Scotland minister and historian); W. Hopburn, William Essing, Abraham Jones Lebras, W. Malthouse, Thomas Tunbridge, John ?Ferdred ("I addressed a note to you on an Invention connected with Etching... it is by the Gentleman who engraves all the present Bank of England notes..."); Robert Hurst (forwarding some scenes in West Cornwall and hoping that Cruikshank will favour them with 2 of his pictures); Maria Louisa Parkman (asking Cruikshank for money); Mary Ann Phillipps (grateful acknowledgement in recommending her petition to the Artists General Benevolent Institution), Colnaghi ("Mr Colnaghi's compliments to Mr Cruikshank and begs to know for how much he would dispose of the drawings of the comfortables, reserving... the right of publishing them himself" and a reply at head saying that the drawings have not yet gone to headquarters), most invitations from various committees (including: King Robert the Bruce Monument, The Grampian Club, National Temperance League, The Waterloo Band of Hope etc.), invitations to meet, to preside over various meetings, to give lectures etc., large pencil signature of Cruikshank and a printed memorial card for Cruikshank, 1878; also ephemera, including: printed titles and preliminaries from Dickens' Oliver Twist and Harrison Ainsworth's Guy Fawkes and Jack Sheppard, all "Extracted from Bentley's Miscellany", 1837-9, 1839 & 1841 etc., Queen's Concert Rooms, Hanover Square, printed handbill, 1862, arranged partly chronologically and partly transcribed. organized into three folders, v.s., v.d., 1843-78 (c. 150).

Description

Cruikshank (George, graphic artist, 1792-1878) Archive of material by and relating to Cruikshank, collection comprises c. 60 drawings, sketches, letters and notes by Cruikshank (drawings and sketches in black ink and pencil, many sketches on random notes), letters, including: draft of a letter to John B. Gough, temperance lecturer, ("I am going to write something abt. you in a little book I am about to publish"); notes, including: ("The Worship of Bacchus or The Drinking Customs of Society"; "22 India Proofs of the Etchings of Proofs of the work - The Omnibus & also 80 India Proofs of the wood cuts..."; "Quarrels over the Social Glass"); [list of accounts], together c. 150 items, letters to Cruikshank on a variety of subjects, including: Charles Rogers (1825-90, Church of Scotland minister and historian); W. Hopburn, William Essing, Abraham Jones Lebras, W. Malthouse, Thomas Tunbridge, John ?Ferdred ("I addressed a note to you on an Invention connected with Etching... it is by the Gentleman who engraves all the present Bank of England notes..."); Robert Hurst (forwarding some scenes in West Cornwall and hoping that Cruikshank will favour them with 2 of his pictures); Maria Louisa Parkman (asking Cruikshank for money); Mary Ann Phillipps (grateful acknowledgement in recommending her petition to the Artists General Benevolent Institution), Colnaghi ("Mr Colnaghi's compliments to Mr Cruikshank and begs to know for how much he would dispose of the drawings of the comfortables, reserving... the right of publishing them himself" and a reply at head saying that the drawings have not yet gone to headquarters), most invitations from various committees (including: King Robert the Bruce Monument, The Grampian Club, National Temperance League, The Waterloo Band of Hope etc.), invitations to meet, to preside over various meetings, to give lectures etc., large pencil signature of Cruikshank and a printed memorial card for Cruikshank, 1878; also ephemera, including: printed titles and preliminaries from Dickens' Oliver Twist and Harrison Ainsworth's Guy Fawkes and Jack Sheppard, all "Extracted from Bentley's Miscellany", 1837-9, 1839 & 1841 etc., Queen's Concert Rooms, Hanover Square, printed handbill, 1862, arranged partly chronologically and partly transcribed. organized into three folders, v.s., v.d., 1843-78 (c. 150).

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