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Page Background 27. JACK BUTLER YEATS RHA (1871-1957) “Stone walls do not a prison make” and “Nor Iron Bars a cage” A pair,

coloured prints, framed, each 16 x 59.5cm (6¼ x 23”)

These were done for a poster advertising Yeats’ first solo show of watercolours at the Clifford Gallery, London, in

1897. A pair was sold in these rooms earlier this year, but they are not common and are not listed in Hilary Pyle .

€500 - 800

28. JACK BUTLER YEATS RHA (1871 - 1957) Drum and Fife

Pen and ink, 16 x 12cm (6¼ x 4¾”)

Signed

Exhibited: “Dublin Black and White Society”, 1914

Dundalk Oireachtas Exhibition, 1915

Royal Academy London Annual Exhibition, 1917, Catalogue No. 252

“Drawing and Pictures of Life in the West of Ireland” Mills Hall Dublin, Mar/Apr 1918, Catalogue No. 37

“Jack B Yeats - Early Drawings and Watercolours” Exhibition, The Victor Waddington Galleries, London, Oct/Nov 1967, Catalogue No. 65

Literature: “A Broadside No. 5 Fourth Year Oct 1911” illustrating “Drum and Fife” by James Guthrie “Jack B Yeats - his Cartoons and Illustrations” by

Hilary Pyle 1993, Catalogue No. 1862, page 258

€2,000 - 4,000