The Ingram Collection - Drawings from the Collection of the late Michael Ingram

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Lot 251
  • 251

Sir Bernard J.Partridge 1861-1945

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Description

  • Sir Bernard J.Partridge
  • Portrait of Philip May

  • inscribed l.l.: Brother Philip May and further inscribed on label attached to the mount: Caricature of Phil May/by Bernard Partridge:/Drawn in my Studio/in the summer of 1896/Sydney Harvey

  • watercolour heightened with white on grey paper

    with a pen and black ink self portrait caricature by Phil May

Catalogue Note

Sir Bernard Partridge and Phil May both worked for Punch (Partridge worked there for over forty years).  Partridge's portrait of May was drawn in the studio of their fellow Punch contributor, Sydney Harvey