GREGORY, H. Fl. 1860s. Album of 35 original pen, ink and watercolor drawings, 162 x 253 mm and smaller, the majority signed "HG," a few signed "H. Gregory," a few unsigned but in the same hand, mounted on 18 leaves, bound in half red morocco album, 400 x 320 mm, spine gilt in 6 compartments, black morocco lettering piece. An amusing album of comic art by a talented but unknown artist, echoing the styles of Cruikshank, Crowquill, Griset, and other popular 19th century illustrators. A series of drawings spoof the drinkers of different types of beer: a toff drinks mild, a laborer drinks stout, and a curmudgeon drinks "old and bitter." In another series, the artist spoofs a naturalist "pinning" frogs in the first panel, only to be "pinned" himself by a native in the next with a moth asking, "How do you like it?" One panel shows an elegant woman in a full hoop skirt and bonnet lifting her hem to show off her shoes. Another shows a gentleman at the beech started by a figure in a diving bell rising up out of the sea above the caption, "The wonders of the deep." Charming.
GREGORY, H. Fl. 1860s. Album of 35 original pen, ink and watercolor drawings, 162 x 253 mm and smaller, the majority signed "HG," a few signed "H. Gregory," a few unsigned but in the same hand, mounted on 18 leaves, bound in half red morocco album, 400 x 320 mm, spine gilt in 6 compartments, black morocco lettering piece. An amusing album of comic art by a talented but unknown artist, echoing the styles of Cruikshank, Crowquill, Griset, and other popular 19th century illustrators. A series of drawings spoof the drinkers of different types of beer: a toff drinks mild, a laborer drinks stout, and a curmudgeon drinks "old and bitter." In another series, the artist spoofs a naturalist "pinning" frogs in the first panel, only to be "pinned" himself by a native in the next with a moth asking, "How do you like it?" One panel shows an elegant woman in a full hoop skirt and bonnet lifting her hem to show off her shoes. Another shows a gentleman at the beech started by a figure in a diving bell rising up out of the sea above the caption, "The wonders of the deep." Charming.
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