Philip William May 1864-1903

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Description

Philip William May
A folio of figure drawings
twenty six (in twenty three mounts), twenty one signed, sixteen inscribed and ten dated between 1891 and 1902
seventeen pen and black ink over pencil, four pencil, one pencil with pen and black ink, one red chalk, one black chalk, one black chalk and grey wash and one pen and black ink with grey wash, some on coloured paper

including Portrait of Her Grandmother, a woman in profile, Jack Tar (2), Little Snooks - a celebrated actress just returned from America, the Angler and the Lunatic, a Tramp, Prince Charming, a Cavalier, A Jug - A Mug, A Giddy Kipr, A Young Savage, The Costers by Swapping 'Ats at 'Appy 'Appy 'Amstead, Winter Bloodstock Sales at Newmarket - Mr Tattersall and Mr Sherrard, St David's Day, two theatrical gents, Fred Storey 'Making Up', figures at a country fair, portrait of Aama, A Colonel and a Major, The New Arrival, Easter Monday and other figure studies

Provenance

From the collections of Alister Mathews, Francis Edwards and other souces. Some purchased from P. & D. Colnaghi & Co., or Abbott & Holder in the 1950's

Exhibited

London, Coronation Exhibition, 1911 (The Tramp)
London, Leicester Galleries, November 1912, no.96 (A Colonel and a Major)

Literature

A number of these drawings were illustrated in Punch in the 1950's