May 05, 2016 - Sale 2413

Sale 2413 - Lot 309

Price Realized: $ 1,170
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
CHURCHILL IN PUNCH REYNOLDS, FRANK. Two ink drawings, each Signed at lower left, each a political cartoon featuring Winston Churchill, for Punch Magazine, on illustration board. The first, showing Churchill on horseback swinging a polo stick at the Earth, lacking caption, published June 15, 1921 with the caption: "Our Imperial No. 1 (What with his pronouncement on Mesopotamia, and the opening of the Imperial Conference, this is a great week for Mr. Winston Churchill)." 10x9 inches (image), 14 1/2x10 1/2 inches overall. The second, showing Churchill speaking to a man standing outside a stage door, with holograph caption, in ink and pencil: "'Resting' Stars. Mr. Winston Churchill: 'You've nothing to complain about, laddie. I was playing Hamlet before you went to school,'" published September 16, 1931. 10 1/2x8 inches (image), 15x10 1/2 inches overall. Np, [1921-31]