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94 88 Isa M. “Mac”Macnie (1869-1958) DR. W. B. YEATS ink and watercolour signed lower right; titled lower centre 9 by 7in. (22.9 by 17.8cm) Frame Size: 9.5 by 7.5in. (24.1 by 19.1cm) Isabella Mary Macnie was born in Clontarf, Dublin on 9 August 1869. Her father was a Scottish master printer and Justice of the peace. Macnie was a skilled sports woman and in 1907 became the Irish Ladies’ Croquet Champion. She was also renowned as an actress, sketch writer, composer and pianist. Macnie took up cartooning in her fifties. She used the pen-name Mac in the publication of her cartoons which tended to cover political figures of the day. She published her book of caricatures, The Celebrity Zoo, in 1925 with accompanying satirical verses. Macnie was an active suffragist and philanthropist. She was a member of the Dublin University Dramatic Society, the Dublin United Arts Club and the Irish Women’s Reform League. She did charity work to support the victims of the Titanic disaster and, during the First WorldWar, nursing and the Red Cross. Chin Angles was her best known cartoon and an example hangs in the Hugh Lane Gallery. Other of her works are in the National Library of Ireland collections. €800-€1,200 (£700-£1,040 approx.) Click here for more images and to bid on this lot88