51
WHYTES
SINCE 1783
,
67
Jack Butler Yeats
RHA (1871-1957)
COMPLETE COLLECTION OF
84 BROADSIDES [1908-1915]
hand-coloured; (from a
limited edition of 300)
11 by 7.50in. (27.94 by
19.05cm)
A Broadside
was published in a
folio format, on special paper
made at the Saggart Mills in
Dublin, with typeface selected
by the artist’s sister Lily and
printed on an Albion hand press
built in 1853.
A Broadside
was
published in an edition of 300
copies. An annual subscription
cost 12 shillings. Jack illustrated
the complete first series (84
issues) totalling 252 drawings
and had exclusive editorial
control for the first series with
W.B. assuming the role for the
subsequent second and third.
The present example is a highly
desirable, complete compilation
in superb condition, housed
within two original blue linen
portfolios each with Yeats’ hand-
coloured labels of a pirate
playing a mandolin.
€
5,000-
€
7,000
(£4,300-£6,000 approx.)
68
Jack Butler Yeats RHA
(1871-1957)
THE STRAND RACES: THE START
AND THE FINISH (A PAIR)
hand-coloured Cuala Press print;
(2); (framed uniformly)
each signed in the plate lower left
5.50 by 17.50in. (13.97 by
44.45cm)
Literature:
Hilary Pyle,
The Different Worlds
of Jack B. Yeats
, Irish Academic
Press, Dublin, 1994, p.283/4, cat
nos. 2015-2016
The original ink and watercolour
drawings for these prints date to
c.1906 and were exhibited in London
in 1913.They were later reproduced in
the Dún Emer catalogue, October
1907 and prospectus, May 1908: Cuala
Print (4).
€
400-
€
600 (£340-£520 approx
Ex 67
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