Jack Butler Yeats sketch

Jack Butler Yeats Collection of 31 Original Character Drawings – Watercolor, Pen & Ink

For sale is a group of 31 individual pen & ink and watercolor drawings of characters by famed Irish artist Jack Butler Yeats (1871-1957). Each sketch adhered to pages from The Cottage Magazine for 1826. This book was used as a scrapbook for his watercolor sketches. A remarkable assembly of interesting blokes with an index. 29 original pen & ink with watercolor and 1 pen & ink, and one pencil sketch.

Signed and dated February 1902.

The majority of the watercolor sketches measure 6 1/4″ x 3 1/2″
The drawing of “Long John the Pirate” measures 11 1/2″ x 8 15/16″

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