J.C. Walker South Wales Echo Moon Shine Temperance & Prohibition Editorial Original Political Illustration Cartoon Newspaper Pen and Ink Drawing

Description:
J.C. Walker South Wales Echo Moon Shine Temperance & Prohibition Editorial Original Political Illustration Cartoon Newspaper Pen and Ink Drawing

From the Prestigious Charles L. Howard Collection.
Depicts Uncle Sam in an airplane shaped as a beer bottle labeled ‘Temperance’ fueled by a plane shaped like a beer barrel above label ‘Moon Shine’ under a cloud of ‘Prohibition’ with a figure lower right corner thinking ‘Wonderful’ as he reads a newspaper - American Airplane Record
Caption title: The Other “Question Mark”
Signed lower center, J.C. Walker

Walker, J. C. (1892 - 1969):
Walker was the sports cartoonist for the Western Mail from the late 1920s until war broke out in September 1939 when he started to draw political cartoons for the paper as well as for the News of the World. After the war, he also drew political cartoons for the South Wales Echo well into the 1960s.

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

Approx. Dimensions or Size: 12.50 by 9.25 inches image site within 22 by 18 inches mat site

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Estimated Weight of Package: 7 lbs.

Package size: 26 x 26 x 2

Cons./Inv. Code: The present lot is inventory number Clh 298 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.
auction date. Low & High Ests: 300 / 500 Starting Bid: 100

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