Lot Essay
An original illustration for Merry England, etc., Perpetua Books, London, 1956, pp.3,7 and 82.
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News Chronicle
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Ronald William Fordham Searle (b. 1920)
News Chronicle
signed and dated 'Ronald Searle/1954' (lower right) and inscribed 'News Chronicle Saturday: issue Sept 19./Music/Lessons to/Pay for/Thankyou/Catalogue/2d/All my/own/work/Wife and/3 Children/to support./Thankyou/3 wives/18children/to feed/Thank you' (throughout)
pencil and pen and black ink, unframed
22 x 15in. (55.8 x 38.1cm.)
News Chronicle
signed and dated 'Ronald Searle/1954' (lower right) and inscribed 'News Chronicle Saturday: issue Sept 19./Music/Lessons to/Pay for/Thankyou/Catalogue/2d/All my/own/work/Wife and/3 Children/to support./Thankyou/3 wives/18children/to feed/Thank you' (throughout)
pencil and pen and black ink, unframed
22 x 15in. (55.8 x 38.1cm.)
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