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ERNEST HEBER THOMPSON.
Group of 10 portraits of literary figures.
Pen and ink on paper.Various sizes, the largest approximately 250x219 mm; 10x8 inches.
Each signed with Thompson’s monogram and dated [19]26. Uniformly matted to 460x355
mm; 18x14 inches.
[400/600]
Walter Scott, Daniel Defoe, Samuel Johnson, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Robert Louis
Stevenson (2), John Clare, James Boswell,Thomas Love Peacock, and Charles Kingsley.
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JAMES THURBER.
Four amusing illustrations for Charles Kingsley’s poem “The Sands o’Dee” as published in
The New Yorker Magazine. Ink on paper. Published in the feature “Famous Poems
Illustrated” on March 25, 1939, a copy of this issue supplied. Each drawing placed above a
six-line stanza. 279x216 mm; 11x8
1
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2
or smaller. Signed, lower left on the final drawing;
three with faint preliminary drawings on verso. Moderate glue stains on versos. Includes
original boards on which each was mounted.
[4,000/6,000]
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