Oct 14, 2014 - Sale 2360

Sale 2360 - Lot 119

Price Realized: $ 2,375
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 4,000
SEPTIMUS EDWIN SCOTT (1879-1965) MORECAMBE & HEYSHAM. Circa 1930.
39 1/4x49 3/4 inches, 99 3/4x126 1/2 cm. Jordison, London.
Condition B+: repaired tears in margins and image; overpainting in margins and corners; unobtrusive vertical and horizontal folds.
Scott was a painter and an illustrator whose landscapes were exhibited with the Royal Academy. He designed posters for the government during the first World War and went on to more commercial work during the period between the wars, including a series of images for the LNER. In the late 1940s he began drawing comic strips. Voyage p. 56.