Chris Beetles

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What Our Wives Have To Put Up With Cricket Enthusiast: 'Go on reading about the Australians, dear'

Frank Reynolds (1876-1953)

Price

£950

Signed

Signed

Medium

Pen and ink

Dimensions

7 ½ x 10 ¼ inches

Provenance

Lt Colonel H Gosset

Illustrated

Punch, 17 March 1926, Page 294

Exhibited

'The Illustrators. The British Art of Illustration 1870-2021', Chris Beetles Gallery, November 2021-January 2022, No 80

Inscribed on label on original backboard in another hand:
'Original Pen & Ink Drawing for "Punch", Frank Reynolds
Given to Uncle Clem by "F R" – Nov 10th 1926.
Bought in at sale in 1940 by Phyllis Forest, as a Residuary Legatee of her uncle's estate.
Reframed 1956, & the original letter from "F R" to "Dear Pavener, would you care to have the enclosed drawing" was destroyed. (23/8/16)'

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