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Estimate: $ 300 - $ 400
CRUIKSHANK, GEORGE. Two items: Graphite drawing Signed * Autograph Manuscript, with a small ink and watercolor drawing Signed. The first drawing, signed in ink at lower left, study for the front cover of the January 1853 issue of John Cassell's Illustrated Magazine of Art. 10x7 inches; inlaid, faint scattered soiling. The manuscript, first portion of a draft for an award acceptance speech. The accompanying drawing, "G.C'k," a bust of a man with sideburns in profile, possibly a self-portrait, drawn after the text on verso. 1 1/4 pages, 8vo, written on recto and verso of a single sheet; horizontal folds, minor scattered staining, few scattered holograph notes. Np, circa 1853; nd
"There are many, very many persons of the present day who may very naturally ask what has this artist done to deserve such a mark of honor . . . . "Some [of] his drawings, some when a boy of 8 or 9, were dated back as far as the last century and it was thought that some . . . were published in the early part of this century. "But it is not the length of time that he has been before the public, but what he may have done to amuse--in an honest & purehearted way . . . ."
