ALBUM - CARICATURES [GUTHRIE (THOMAS ANSTEY) "F. Anstey", attributed to] A series of 19 caricatures based on scenes from Classical literature or history, [c.1874-1877]
ALBUM - CARICATURES
[GUTHRIE (THOMAS ANSTEY) "F. Anstey", attributed to] A series of 19 caricatures based on scenes from Classical literature or history, with reference to life at Cambridge University, 19 caricature drawings by (17 in ink, 2 pencil, the largest 225 x 250mm., smallest 110 x 180mm.), signed "Dod", loosely inserted into an album, later presentation inscription "To Evelyn Pym from A.G [?Guthrie], Feb. 1905", loose in stiff wrappers, folio, [c.1874-1877]
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Footnotes

  • A series of caricatures based on scenes from Classical literature and history, including Ulysses, Aeneas, Hannibal, Trojan youth, the Cataline conspiracy, Cicero's orations. Attributed to the Thomas Ansty Guthrie, best known as a contributor of humerous writings to "Punch Magazine", who was at Cambridge in the 1870s.

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