The Scourge of the Gulph: The Grove of the Heads on the Savage Island

Details

Jack Butler Yeats, R.H.A. (1871-1957)
The Scourge of the Gulph: The Grove of the Heads on the Savage Island
signed 'JACK.B. YEATS' (lower right)
ink
6 x 8½ in. (15.2 x 21.5 cm.)
Executed in 1903.

Provenance

with Waddington Galleries, London.

Literature

J. B. Yeats, The Scourge of the Gulph, London, 1903, p. 10, illustrated.
R. Skelton (Ed.), The Collected Plays of Jack B. Yeats, London, 1971, pp. 73-80, illustrated.
H. Pyle, The Different Worlds of Jack B. Yeats His Cartoons and Illustrations, Dublin, 1994, pp. 209-10, no. 1502, illustrated.

Exhibited

London, Waddington Galleries, Jack B. Yeats, 1973, no. 20.

Special notice

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Lot Essay

The Scourge of the Gulph is a children's play written by Jack B. Yeats in 1903 for miniature theatre, and it is illustrated with six drawings by him. The present lot illustrates scene three, The Grove of Heads on the Savage Island.

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