A collection of 30 circa mid 19th Century well executed pen ...

Hammer

£110

A collection of 30 circa mid 19th Century well executed pen & ink caricature/cartoon sketches on cards, each card approx. size 6 x 9cm, several of the sketches satirical in nature, including two depicting Benjamin Disraeli and each captioned/titled in pen & ink "Ministerial Crisis February 1851", the first with m/s pen & ink caption beneath "Mr Disraeli, on hearing of the ministerial crisis, immediately waited upon fortune, but was not favoured with an interview.-", the second "On hearing that Lord Stanley had gone a second time to the palace, mr Disraeli took his seat - and the oaths - as "gentleman in waiting" before the fire-", others satirising dentistry showing gruesome treatments, several others cherubs, animal, people etc. Provenance: cleared from a deceased estate in North Norfolk around 25 years ago, which included a body of student art work from the 1830s, in a mix of pen and ink, chalk and watercolour. It can be traced to the Norwich School because one of the subjects was a direct copy of a Norwich School painting of 1831 now in the museum in Norwich and which would have been created for copying: as was the custom at the time. These miniature items are from later in the artists life. (30)