Ireland, Irish Ascendency - Caricatures by Major Charles Kem...

Hammer

£180

Ireland, Irish Ascendency - Caricatures by Major Charles Kemble Butler-Stoney (1877-1956), of Portland Park, County Tipperary, Munster, an early 20th century album of 34 cartoons, all of which are in watercolour, but for one in pen-and-ink and a pencil preparatory sketch, each well-executed satire pooh-poohing figures of the aristocratic, political, military, and ecclesiastical establishment of Great Britain and its Empire, as well as the visual and literary Arts, and more humble subjects, including 'The Man That Winds Up Big Ben', everyday social mores, occasional Chinese or Middle-Eastern figures, etc., most titled in ink manuscript, mounted on card leaves, contemporary quarter-roan over cloth, 4to (30.5cm x 24.5cm), [1]

Provenance: "Caricatures/By Charles Kemble Butler-Stoney (my Brother)/Who died in Dec:r 1956 - at Castletown/BBS [Captain Bowes Butler-Stoney (1879-1971), of Kincora Lodge, Killaloe, County Clare]"; recto pastedown MS inscription.