Jan 23, 2014 - Sale 2337

Sale 2337 - Lot 44

Price Realized: $ 288
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 400
FANNY YOUNG CORY.
Group of 4 illustrations for St. Nicholas Magazine. Pen and ink on paper. Various sizes. All but one signed "F. Y. Cory" Variously but lightly finger soiled, few spots, pencil annotations and partial captions in margins and versos. 1901-06.

Additional Details

"Little Joe." With pencil sketch on verso. 7x3 3/4 inches. Unattributed but likely for St. Nicholas, circa 1900 "And now his face was white with fear." 5 3/4x9 1/2 inches, in "The Mutiny" by William B. MacHarg, July 1901, page 785 "The Spelling Class." 4 1/2x11 inches. Solo illustration on page 446 of March 1904 issue "Joey's Ingenuity." 9x14 inches. Title vignette for story of same name by Ellsworth Shawn. February 1906, page 658.