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Important Irish Art | 28th September 2016

A Christmas card to John Masefield, December 1903, depicting ‘Theodore’ resting in a hammock (1907)

Ink and watercolour on a paper doily, 18 x 18cm (7 x 7’’)

Signed with monogram and inscribed ‘Wishing you a very Happy Christmas’ and ‘Above thy Glory circled Head/ There is a little bird that

cheepeth/ Rejoice! thy Theo isn’t dead/ He sleepeth’ John Masefield.

Provenance: Previously in the collection of Tim Vignoles.

John Masefield wrote a poem called “Theodore”, a pirate see Lot 5 “Tim Vignoles sale” these rooms 14th December 2015.

He was influenced by Jack B. Yeats first and most successful of his miniature plays, “James Flaunty”, or, “The Terror of the Western Seas”, pub-

lished by Elkin Matthews in London in 1901 and as a result of which Masefield dedicated the poem “Tarry Buccaneer” published in “Saltwater

ballads” in 1902 to Jack B. Yeats.

€ 1,000 - 1,500