Jun 09, 2022 - Sale 2608

Sale 2608 - Lot 178

Price Realized: $ 625
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 250 - $ 350

REGINALD BIRCH (1856-1943)

"Joggerfy"-Digging to China.

Unpublished cartoon, circa early 1900s. Ink on illustration paper. 381x290 mm; 15x11 1/2 inches, sheet.
The piece is titled "Joggerfy" (a child's version of "Geography"), and features the perennial childhood fantasy of digging hole to / from China. The verso bears a note indicating is was not published.
Birch is best known for his pictures for Francis Hodgson Burnett's Little Lord Fauntleroy, that started a fashion craze.