An autograph album of drawings, watercolours and collage, including six drawings by Munnings

Details

Sir Alfred James Munnings, P.R.A., R.W.S. (1878-1959) and various
An autograph album of drawings, watercolours and collage, including six drawings by Munnings
variously signed with initials and dated 1918, 1919 and 1920
variously pencil, pen and black ink and watercolour
each Munnings sketch 4 ½ x 6 ¾ in. (11.4 x 17.2 cm.); each page 5 1/8 x 7 in. (13 x 17.8 cm.); the album 5 ¼ x 7 in. (13.4 x 17.8 cm.)

Provenance

Miss Hilda Wood, Chertsey, Surrey.
Nellie Sargent.

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Lot Essay

A letter inserted into the album asserts that Munnings gave the six sketches included in this album to Miss Hilda Wood after having met her when training wild horses near Reading during the First World War. The first three humorous sketches depict Miss Wood on, or being thrown off, horseback. The fourth sketch shows a small terrier and the final two drawings are of Miss Wood's friend Miss Shaw, including one of her astride a rather feisty looking horse, 'Dainty'.

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