CRICKET - REYNOLDS [Orig. artwork]+ 'Punch' 1920

November 23, 2021

Rare Books, Documents, Photos, and Artwork

Lot 142

CRICKET - REYNOLDS [Orig. artwork]+ 'Punch' 1920

Estimate: $600 - $800

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[CRICKET. - Frank REYNOLDS] [Original artwork + 'Punch Summer Number 1920']

Offered for sale by Adam Langlands of 'Shadowrock Rare Books' - for more information please contact him via email at adamlanglands@gmail.com

[CRICKET]. - [Frank REYNOLDS (1876-1953, illustrator)]. ‘First Wicket Down or the Chance of a Lifetime’: original ‘Punch’ storyboard in six panels. [UK: 1920]. Original pen and ink drawing on board (14 ½ x 10 5/8 in; 368 x 270mm), captioned in pencil, with additional note ‘full p.[age] Summer FHT[ownsend]’. Condition: old puncture to center of board (see images].

A companion piece, the original artwork to the second page of this double-page ‘storyboard’ cartoon was sold by Christies in 1997 (part of lot 97, ‘Cricket’, 17 June, sold for 518 GBP). – It would be fitting if they could be re-united?

[with:]

Punch Summer Number 1920. [London: 1920]. Quarto (11 x 9 in; 280 x 229mm). Illustrated throughout, some color. Original illustrated colored wrappers after F.H. Townsend. Includes the published version of Frank Retnolds ‘First Wicket Down…’ [see images].

In ‘the Twenties and Thirties… [Reynolds], perhaps, contributed more than any other artist to giving an issue of Punch its character’ (Price ‘A History of Punch’ [1957])

‘His line possessed a freedom and energy which make us recognise it now as the forerunner of much of the free style drawing of today. He played, in fact, an important part in the transition from the comparatively tight naturalistic drawing of the beginning of the century (a legacy from the old wood engraving) to the freer and more fluid and very much less documented styles that followed.’ (Kenneth Bird “Fougasse”)

‘Reynolds was born in London and studied art at Heatherley’s. His earliest illustrations appeared in Longbow and Pick-Me-Up in the later years of the nineteenth century. In 1901 he became a member of the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours; he exhibited there and at Walker’s Art Gallery, London. His first cartoon appeared in Punch in 1906 and in 1920 he succeeded his late brother in law F H Townsend as the magazine’s Art Editor (a position he held until 1930). …’ (https://www.saturdaygalleryart.com/frank-reynolds-biography-punch-magazine.html).

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