Dominic Winter Auctions
Lot 608
Cruikshank (George, 1792-1878). Hold your Bawling you good for nothing feller & get on with your work. The right end of life's to be jolly, be jolly &c.', pencil on paper, showing a chaotic domestic scene, with a woman wearing a bonnet and apron shaking her fist at a man who lolls on a table raising a tankard aloft in one hand and a clay pipe in the other, with disporting children and animals, browned, captioned in ink in the artist's hand on verso (with additional faint pencilled notes), 16 x 11.5 cm (6.5 x 4.5 ins), mounted, pencilled note on mount 'Ex. Coll. G.[erald] Reitlinger', together with Dumbarton Rock, Sept. 8th. 1856, pencil sketch on paper, titled in pencil to lower margin, and signed in pencil lower right, some minor spotting and marks, 25 x 35.5 cm (9.75 x 14 ins), mounted, plus Cruikshank (Robert Isaac, 1789-1856) , Family group with donkey, pencil and wash with some ink outlines, on paper, depicting a young couple with two small children, walking in a landscape with a donkey carrying loaded pannier baskets and a dog chasing along beside, initialled in pen lower right below image, browned, 20 x 34 cm (8 x 13.25 ins), mounted (Qty: 3)Gerald Roberts Reitlinger (1900-1978) was an art historian, painter and collector, who was particularly interested in changing tastes in the art market, and consequent price fluctuation.
