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CRUIKSHANK, George. An album containing original drawings and sketches.
4° (353 x 300mm.). A group of 14 signed pencil and pen-and-ink drawings heightened with watercolour (various sizes: 222 x 180mm. to 58 x 34mm.) window-mounted on nine leaves. Modern red morocco gilt by the Booklovers Bindery New York, slipcase. Provenance: Barry Jones Walton (Anderson Galleries sale 22.11.1929, brought by Rosenbach).
Subjects include two designs for pit and box passes for Her Majesty's Theatre (on one sheet), a self-portrait, a young pickpocket at work (? The Artful Dodger) and various vignettes of scenes of rustic and social life.
4° (353 x 300mm.). A group of 14 signed pencil and pen-and-ink drawings heightened with watercolour (various sizes: 222 x 180mm. to 58 x 34mm.) window-mounted on nine leaves. Modern red morocco gilt by the Booklovers Bindery New York, slipcase. Provenance: Barry Jones Walton (Anderson Galleries sale 22.11.1929, brought by Rosenbach).
Subjects include two designs for pit and box passes for Her Majesty's Theatre (on one sheet), a self-portrait, a young pickpocket at work (? The Artful Dodger) and various vignettes of scenes of rustic and social life.