Large Charles Macaulay Pulitzer Winner New York Daily Mirror Puck Magazine 1898 Editorial Original Political Illustration Cartoon Newspaper Pen and Ink Drawing

Description: Large Charles Macaulay Pulitzer Winner New York Daily Mirror Puck Magazine 1898 Editorial Original Political Illustration Cartoon Newspaper Pen and Ink Drawing

Large Charles Macaulay, New York Daily Mirror and Puck Magazine, published in 1898, possibly depicting Moses steering a life boat filled with huddled figures through the parted sea, from the Prestigious Charles L. Howard Collection.
Signed bottom right with penciled press notations and date with Puck stamp verso: Dec. 2 / 98, Property of Puck N.Y.

Charles Raymond Macauley (1871- 1934): Pulitzer prize winner cartoonist, author of several Novels and Screen Plays.
The editorial cartoon that won the Pulitzer Prize in 1930 for Charles R. Macauley was published in 1929 in the Brooklyn Daily Eagle. It criticized the heavy burden of reparations placed on Germany by the Treaty of Versailles.
We have never seen a work this size at auction and feel it merits attention.

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

Approx. Dimensions or Size: 25.25 by 19.25 inches image site within 40 by 30 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 579 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: 300 / 700 Starting Bid: 150

Paper has evenly toned with three small pin holes upper and lower right corners.
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.