The Emigrant: Off to America

Details

Jack Butler Yeats, R.H.A. (1871-1957)
The Emigrant: Off to America
signed and dated 'JACK B YEATS 98' (lower right)
pencil, watercolour and bodycolour on buff paper
10¾ x 17¼ in. (27.3 x 43.8 cm.)

Engraved

H. Pyle, Jack B. Yeats His Watercolours, Drawings and Pastels, Dublin, 1993, p. 80.

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Lot Essay

Hilary Pyle (loc. cit.) comments, 'Yeats did a pencil sketch of a crowd watching a side car speeding away along a rocky road, when visiting Dungloe in August 1898 (sketchbook 11), adding the caption 'To America'. It may have been the basis for the fuller composition. A sketch of The Emigrant, under the title Off to America, and signed by Yeats, was published in the Dublin Independent, 19 May 1899'.

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