Lot Essay
An original illustration published for Young Elizabethan Magazine.
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Nigel Molesworth and the Karackter Kup
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Ronald William Fordham Searle (b.1920)
Nigel Molesworth and the Karackter Kup
signed and dated 'Ronald Searle [1958]' (lower left) and inscribed 'the boy who won this kup must be noble, upright, brave,/fearless, intreppid and honest.' (upper left) and further inscribed 'Nigel Molesworth and the/Karackter Kup. This is never an easy kup to award (of course/not, it is ushually at the pornbrokers)' (upper right).
pencil, pen and black ink, unframed
4½ x 9¾ in. (11.5 x 24.6 cm.)
Nigel Molesworth and the Karackter Kup
signed and dated 'Ronald Searle [1958]' (lower left) and inscribed 'the boy who won this kup must be noble, upright, brave,/fearless, intreppid and honest.' (upper left) and further inscribed 'Nigel Molesworth and the/Karackter Kup. This is never an easy kup to award (of course/not, it is ushually at the pornbrokers)' (upper right).
pencil, pen and black ink, unframed
4½ x 9¾ in. (11.5 x 24.6 cm.)