28th Aug, 2019 14:00
The British & International Pictures Auction
AN ORIGINAL PEN & INK CARTOON BY GEORGE DENHOLM ARMOUR
* GEORGE DENHOLM ARMOUR OBE (SCOTTISH 1864 - 1949),
"ENGLISH TOURIST TO OLD SCOT"
pen on paper, signed
26cm x 21cm
Mounted, framed and under glass.
Inscribed: However do you keep warm wading like that in this weather? Whisky, nothing but whisky. I just ____ ____ a bottle a day. Man it's good for the digestion. My wife says when I ____ my head in the water in the morning, she can hear it sizzle.
Note: Although always a fine draughtsman, it was after he met Crawhall that Armour developed the subtle but strong drawing style seen in his work for Punch and many other publications. He was first illustrated in The Graphic in 1890, while sharing the studio with Phil May and from 1894 concentrated largely on his cartoon work. Introduced to the magazine by May, he contributed to Punch for 35 years, although never entirely abandoning his hunting and shooting watercolours and washes. Caw states that 'in comparison to the works of other exponents of the pictured ‘sporting joke’, in ‘draughtsmanship and design they are incomparably finer.’
250
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Sold for £200
Estimated at £150 - £250
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