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THE PROPERTY OF THE LATE JOHN PAYNE

Searle, Ronald
TWO ILLUSTRATIONS FROM HOW TO BE TOPP, COMPRISING:
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THE PROPERTY OF THE LATE JOHN PAYNE

Searle, Ronald
TWO ILLUSTRATIONS FROM HOW TO BE TOPP, COMPRISING:
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Details & Cataloguing

English Literature, History, Children’s Books and Illustrations, including The Garrett Herman Collection: The Age of Darwin

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Searle, Ronald
TWO ILLUSTRATIONS FROM HOW TO BE TOPP, COMPRISING:
a) "The peason-molesworth space ship threatened by wild mercurian maths masters lies disabled in the onion bed...", 125 by 195mm.; b) "Meanwhile in the master's common room. Sigismund arbuthnot the mad maths master musters his rhomboids.", 145 by 220mm.; both pen and ink drawings on one sheet, signed and dated lower right "Ronald Searle 1954", inscribed with captions, mounted, framed and glazed, some slight fading
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Provenance

Chris Beetles Limited, "The British Art of Illustration - The Twentieth Century", 2001, no 74

Exhibited

The British Art of Illustration 2001-The Twentieth Century, no.74

Catalogue Note

Published within Geoffrey Willans and Ronald Searle, How to be Topp (1954), p. 24

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English Literature, History, Children’s Books and Illustrations, including The Garrett Herman Collection: The Age of Darwin

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