Every day Sophie Dupre presents two items from her large stock of signed photographs, autograph letters, autographs for sale, royal memoralbilia and antiquarian manuscripts.
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May 31
ON THIS DAY
On this day in 1860 Walter Sickert was born. He was a painter and printmaker and a member of the Camden Town Group. Sickert was a cosmopolitan and eccentric who often favoured ordinary people and urban scenes as his subjects. He has been included among the suspects for Jack the Ripper. In 1872 William Heath Robinson was born. He was a cartoonist and illustrator and is best known for drawings of ridiculously complicated machines for achieving simple objectives. The term "Heath Robinson" entered the English language during the 1914–1918 First World War as a description of any unnecessarily complex and implausible contrivance. WALTER SICKERT SETS THE RECORD STRAIGHT SICKERT (Walter Richard, 1860-1942, Painter) Fine Autograph letter signed (’Rd Sickert’) to the editor of the News Chronicle thanking him for publishing his “telegram of yesterday. Will you allow me to correct a point on which your addition might be misleading. As soon as I learnt that the removal of the figures on Rhodesia House was due to a question of engineering danger to passers-by I acquiesced. I resigned because a member of the R.A., when asked why the portrait of Shaw was not accepted, said ‘we won’t have Shaw in the R.A.’ Why? What is the matter with G.B.S. anyhow? ...” extensively annotated by the editor of publication, 1 side folio, 8 Rue Aguado, Dieppe, 30th October 1937, lacking top left hand corner without loss of text, some light creasing 38292 ROBINSON (William Heath, 1872-1944, Humorous Artist) Autograph letter Signed to ‘Dear Carse’, saying “Herewith I gladly send my autograph” and promising “to look you up some day ...”, 1 side 8vo and conjugate blank, Alfriston, Hatch End, Middlesex, 5th January 1911 56478
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