Next listing, last posting dates and holiday opening hours.

 

Seasons Greetings!


  Christmas - Time.   
(Designed Etched & Published by George Cruikshank May 1st 1827). 
Etching with original hand colour. Sheet 265 x 355mm (10½ x 14"), paper watermarked 'Whatman Turkey Mill 1826. Small tear in top and bottom edge, some slight staining. 
Six vignette drolls on the theme 'Christmas Time', including 'Pudding Time'. 
From the series 'Scraps and Sketches'. 
[Ref:  57278]
 
 
Catalogue 113 will be out Wednesday 8th December.

If you want a preview we are participating in the CSEDT online fair December 2nd - 12th:
https://www.csedt.org/en/oeuvres/

Christmas opening hours:
We shall be closed from Thursday 23nd December 2pm until 10am
Tuesday 4th January.

We encourage to buy your Christmas presents as early as possible because shipping and customs can take a while. We cannot guarantee parcels arriving in time for Christmas.

Last posting dates are as follows but please note it can take time to process your order:

Royal Mail: https://www.royalmail.com/christmas/last-posting-dates#lastpostingdates
Parcelforce: https://www.parcelforce.com/sites/default/files/PFW-Retail-Last-posting-dates-2021.pdf
Fedex: Ask us for a quote. They recommend shipping before 13th December: https://www.tnt.com/dam/tnt_campaign_media/global_media_library/covid-19-docs/fedex-covid-19_service_impacts.pdf
 

[In the Silent North.]   
HD. Herbert Dicksee [pencil signature]. Newcastle-upon-Tyne Published 1st January 1903 by Mess.rs  Mawson, Swan & Morgan Ltd. Copyright registered. 
Etching on vellum, limited to 400 remarqued proofs signed by the artist. 520 x 730mm (20½ x 28¾"). Framed. Some surface soiling in margins, unexamined out of frame.                    
A pair of menacing polar bears approaching an upturned sledge which, being half out of the image, leaves the fate of the occupants to our imagination. In the bottom margin is a remarque of three huskies with sledge. 
Herbert Thomas Dicksee (1862-1942) was an English painter who specialised in paintings of dogs and animals. He studied at the Slade School of Art and his first painting was exhibited in 1881. His paintings were usually done from life; he kept numerous dogs as pets and frequented London Zoo. His daughter, Dorothy was the executor of his will, which directed her to destroy most of the plates for his etchings. 
[Ref:  57313] 
 

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