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YEATS, JACK B. | Two ink drawings for a Cuala card, etc. (Dublin Quays and Leave Her Johnny)

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December 8, 05:38 PM GMT

Estimate

3,500 - 4,000 GBP

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YEATS, JACK B.


Two ink drawings for a Cuala Press Christmas card, etc., comprising:


i) Dublin Quays, 228 x 161mm., ink drawing with small corrections in gouache, signed middle right, [Pyle, The Different Worlds of Jack B. Yeats – His Cartoon and Illustrations 2075 and 2083];


ii) 'Leave Her Johnny', 95 x 154mm., ink drawing, signed middle right, [Pyle, The Different Worlds of Jack B. Yeats - His Cartoon and Illustrations 1801];


both mounted, framed and glazed (2)


The first item was used for a Cuala Press Christmas Card and Calendar for 1911. The second item, dated 1909, was used as an illustration to the sailor's chanty 'Leave Her Johnny' in A Broadside no 8 second year (January 1910).