Apr 03, 2008 - Sale 2140

Sale 2140 - Lot 46

Price Realized: $ 3,600
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 5,000 - $ 7,500
CRUIKSHANK, GEORGE. Original Drawings 1846 [cover title]. 14 mounted original hand-colored drawings, various sizes, each signed in ink, many with remarques or vignettes in pencil and/or pen. Folio, full red crushed morocco, gilt lettering and turn-ins by the Booklovers Bindery; cloth slipcase; bookplate of George Seton Veitch. Np, 1846
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A lovely collection of detailed, finished drawings. Four images are mounted one to a page and the remaining ten are mounted two to a page. The first page bears two images on a single sheet titled Her Majesty's Theatre 1846; Cruikshank did create separate images for theatre at this time including an "Admission Ticket to the Boxes" in 1848 in three states (Cohn 1195).