WHYTE'S IRISH & INTERNATIONAL ART Monday 7 March 2022 from 6PM

39 IRISH & INTERNATIONAL ART · 7 MARCH 2022 AT 6PM 26 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. (27.9 by 19.1cm) 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 his brother, William assuming the role for the subsequent second and third. The present example is a highly desirable, complete compilation, housed within an original beige linen portfolio with Yeats’ hand-coloured label of a pirate playing a mandolin. €8,000-€12,000 (£6,780-£10,170 approx.) Click here for more images and to bid on this lot26