1892 Daniel Carter Beard Life Magazine “The Burden Of Life” Capital and Labor with George Van Nest Provenance Editorial Original Political Illustration Cartoon Newspaper Pen and Ink Drawing

Description:
1892 Daniel Carter Beard Life Magazine “The Burden Of Life” Capital and Labor with George Van Nest Provenance Editorial Original Political Illustration Cartoon Newspaper Pen and Ink drawing from the Prestigious Charles L. Howard Collection.

Published for Life Magazine by artist Daniel Carter Beard, the illustration depicts the protest of labor slaying the dragon as ‘the burden of life’ under the upper class.
Signed and dated lower right, 1892 Daniel Carter Beard with first draft of illustration and inked drawing with auction Label and provenance Verso: Sold at auction by Andersen in 1908, New York, from the collection of George Van Nest, well known in the world for cartoons and maps.

Winning bidder will receive a Certificate of Authenticity with the drawing.

Approx. Dimensions or Size: 19 by 25.75 inches image site within 30 by 40 inches mat board

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Estimated Weight of Package: 11 lbs.

Package size: 32 x 32 x 2

Cons./Inv. Code: The present lot is inventory number Clh 591 in the Charles L. Howard Collection, one of two hundred lots that will be continuously added to this online catalogue on a daily basis between today and the day of sale. The first 100 to 125 lots will be Important Original Illustration Art and the second 100 to 125 lots are comprised of Original Railroad Art. Please check our listings regularly during the coming days for many exciting discoveries.
Low & High Ests: 3000 / 4000 Starting Bid: 350

Small repair lower left (flower-see patch verso) with light overall toning to illustration commensurate with age. Matting is browned, soiled and brittle.
The state of preservation of these original illustration drawings that are on average over 65 years old is quite exceptional. Very, very few have any creases, tears or losses to the paper and the ink has remained uniformly vivid thanks to the family’s dry flat storage. Given that these were working drawings from which prints were made the expected edge annotations, highlighting, inscriptions, pasted labels, tack holes, staples, glue residues and scattered corrections can be found variously on the examples as illustrated in the photographs. These all add to the authenticity and immediacy of the Wartime newsroom and pressroom atmosphere, serving to reinforce the iconic status of these rare surviving testimonies to the political illustrator’s art. In a few examples additional notations have been made in the description section of the catalogue text for significant damage, however the condition sensitive collector is encouraged to contact our sale expert for additional lot details in advance of the auction date.