?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
THOMAS NAST "That Noble Animal, the British Lion, Loose in London." Political cartoon, c. 1890. Pen and ink on board. 184x191 mm; 7 1/4x7 1/2 inches. Signed "Th: Nast" in lower right image.
Title written on verso of this drawing showing a distinctly Cockney-featured lion sporting a hat, smoking a pipe, with a club in one hand and a gin bottle in the other, prowling the streets of London.
Source: Sotheby's auction catalog, New York, October 31, 1984.
