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

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Lot 254
  • 254

Philip William May 1864-1903

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Description

  • Philip William May
  • A folio of drawings

  • eight, each signed, six inscribed, four dated betwen 1893 and 1902

  • six pen and black ink over pencil, one pen and black ink and blue crayon over pencil, one pen and black ink and pencil
including Sunday in the Embankment Garden, a policeman and drunkard, Poverty Junction - Unemployed Entertainers in York Road Lambeth, Coventry Street - Follow On,  Boxing Day Studies - After Dinner, Holiday in Cornwall, Types I have met - An East End Preacher and head studies

Provenance

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

Literature

Punch, 24th December 1902 (Sunday in the Embankment Garden);
Illustrated London News, December 1958 (Sunday in the Embankment Garden)