Jack Butler Yeats RHA (1871-1957)
On the Stones - The Cattle Market, Caledonian Road, Selling Cheap Nags, (c.1950)
Indian ink on card, 35.5 x 52cm (14 x 20½")
Signed

Provenance: Waddington Galleries,...

Jack Butler Yeats RHA (1871-1957)
On the Stones - The Cattle Market, Caledonian Road, Selling Cheap Nags, (c.1950)
Indian ink on card, 35.5 x 52cm (14 x 20½")
Signed

Provenance: Waddington Galleries, London; Private Collection

Exhibited: '25th Annual Exhibition', Art Society Belfast, 1905; 'Sketches of Life in the West of Ireland', Leinster Hall, Dublin, 1-20 October 1906, cat. No. 40; 'Pictures of Life in the West of Ireland', Walker Art Gallery, London, 3-29 February 1908, no. 43; 'Early Drawings and Watercolours', Victor Waddington, London 27 Oct - 18 Nov 1967, no. 10 (reproduced); 'Jack B. Yeats Retrospective Exhibition', Waddington Fine Arts, Montreal 12 March - 5 April 1969, no. 40

Literature: Manchester Guardian, 28 January 1905 (7); (reproduced); Pyle, Hilary, 'The Different Worlds of Jack B. Yeats. His Cartoons and Illustrations' Irish Academic Press, 1994, catalogue no. 651, p.117 (listed), p.119 (illustrated)

 

One from a series of twenty-eight illustrations of life in the East End of London, called Pastimes of the Londoners. Intended as a book which was not in the end published, this illustration did appear in the Manchester Guardian in January 1905 when it was accompanied by an article by Jack Yeats.

 

 

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