The New Postillion - cartoon for 'Punch'
Maker
(artist)
1820-1914
1820-1914
Title
The New Postillion - cartoon for 'Punch'
Date of Production
(March) 1899
Medium
graphite on white wove paper with graphite framing lines, laid down on a historic card support
Dimensions
Height: 18.8 cm
Width: 27.8 cm
Width: 27.8 cm
Accession Number
D.1965.WF.4744
Mode of Acquisition
Witt Fund, purchase, 1965 (June)
Credit
The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)
Copyright
Work in the public domain
Location
Not currently on display
Keywords
Provenance
Dr Carl Robert Rudolf, London (1884-1974); Rudolf Gift via the Witt Fund June 1965
Inscriptions
Watermark: Watermark: unable to check as is laid down.
Inscription: Recto: lower left corner, graphite, signed with monogram and dated: “JT / 1899”. Support (historic), Verso: upper right corner (but this inscription no longer visible - see photo), graphite: “4.65 [this crossed out] / 5.65 / 4744”; centre, graphite: “87”; lower left (no longer visible – see photo), graphite: “- s/-”. Mount (removed, see photo), Recto: lower left corner, graphite: “5.65”. Separate card mounted on historic support, graphite: “John Tenniel. / The New Postillion. / Madame La France. (nervously) "Postillion Loubet! Are you quite sure you know the way?" / Punch. March 1. 1899.”
Inscription: Recto: lower left corner, graphite, signed with monogram and dated: “JT / 1899”. Support (historic), Verso: upper right corner (but this inscription no longer visible - see photo), graphite: “4.65 [this crossed out] / 5.65 / 4744”; centre, graphite: “87”; lower left (no longer visible – see photo), graphite: “- s/-”. Mount (removed, see photo), Recto: lower left corner, graphite: “5.65”. Separate card mounted on historic support, graphite: “John Tenniel. / The New Postillion. / Madame La France. (nervously) "Postillion Loubet! Are you quite sure you know the way?" / Punch. March 1. 1899.”
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