Lot 253
  • 253

Philip William May 1864-1903

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Description

  • Philip William May
  • A folio of Scenes from London Life
  • thirty-four, thirty-five signed and inscribed, three dated: 94, 96 and 1901 
  • each pen and black ink over pencil
including Our Cabbies, Telling Granny, Mosaic Ornaments, Arrival of Trippers at Scarbro', Lord Rosslyn - Newmarket Winter Sales: The Biggest Buyer, Judges of Today, Starving, Head pieces, Gutter Merchants, As it might be - Half a Crown a day and Coffee and Soup, As it is - Sixteen pence a Day and Find Yourself,  Sunday Clothes, Mother, In Charge, Fresh Eggs, Daddy, Just Out - Beauties of South Africa, A pair of 'em!, The Doll, An Accident, Let Me Like a Soldier Fall, Monday Morning, Isn't he a beauty?, Try Sam Smith's Anti Fat, Monkeys, A Sharp Contrast, Little Monkeys, Ere's Luck!, Rags n Bones, Men of Muscle, Nevermind I was a child myself once, Men of War, No Hands Wanted Today and other subjects 

Provenance

From the collections of Francis Edwards, Alister Mathews and other sources.  Some were purchased from P. & D. Colnaghi & Co., in 1957  

Literature

A number of these drawings were illustrated in the Christmas edition of Illustrated London News, 1958

Catalogue Note

with an album entitled Songs and Their Singers from Punch by Philip William May (Japanese Proofs), London, 1898