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The New Postillion - cartoon for 'Punch'

Maker

(artist)
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

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.”

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