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Grace Gifford Plunkett (1888-1955). “Familiar Faces” hand drawn and coloured booklet.
Circa 1907.14pp including cover, hand sewn stitching. Apparently created by Gifford while at the Metropoli-
tan School of Art, Dublin. The booklet, includes 9 ink and watercolour drawings, mainly lampooning teach-
ers at the art school including “The Celtic Child”, “Benevolent Barden”, “Terrible Tilly”, “Sunny Sheppard”,
“Languid Luke”, “Remarkable Reeves” and “Jocose Jacobs”. A unique example of the precocious talent of
Grace Gifford.
Provenance: B. I. Tilly, Registrar of The Metropolitan School of Art, Dublin 1905-1920;
Thence by descent to the present owner.
Grace Evelyn Gifford Plunkett (4 March 1888 – 13 December 1955) was an Irish artist who was active in the
Republican movement, and who married her fiancée Joseph Plunkett in Kilmainham Gaol only a few hours
before he was executed for his part in the 1916 Easter Rising.
6½ x 7½in. (16.51 x 19.05cm)
Estimate €3000-€5000 £2340-£3900
Large Image & Place Bid Lot 204