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Sir John Tenniel (1820-1914)

Price
£1,450
Signed
Signed with monogram
Medium
Pencil
Dimensions
6 ¼ x 8 ¼ inches
Provenance
From the collection of Mary Green (née Tenniel), the artist's
sister, and thence by family descent
Illustrated
Punch, 29 September 1866, Page 133
Exhibited
'The Illustrators. The British Art of Illustration 1800-2013', Chris Beetles Gallery, November 2013-January 2014, No 350

The overmastering success of the Prussian needle-gun in the Austro-Prussian War had given an immense impetus to the manufacture of arms of precision.

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