Randolph Caldecott

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Randolph Caldecott
1846-1886
European Journalists and the Graphic Enterprise
187-?
Pen and black ink on paper.
9 15/16 x 8 inches (253 x 203 mm)
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
1986.2261

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Sketch probably intended for a cartoon for publication in the the Daily Graphic; executed on the verso of a sheet of stationery from the Exhibition of Sketches of All Nations, 1873, New York.
Title from item; attribution from Gordon Ray inventory.

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From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
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Cartoon shows a European dignitary reading a copy of the Daily graphic, as a soldier in pith helmet and third man seated at left look on.

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Ray, Gordon Norton, 1915-1986, former owner.

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