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www.adams.ieThe History Sale 19
th
April 2016
30 ARTHUR GRIFFITH & MICHAEL COLLINSMemorial cards, 1922 (August 12th and 22nd), sold as a pair, both of
similar design with thick black borders and oval portrait vignettes, both
9 x 6.5cm
(2)
€ 500 - 700
31 FRANK LEAH (1886 - 1972)Michael Collins in the Jermyn Court Hotel, London
together with
The late President Griffith sketched in Govt. Buildings a month before he
died
Pencil, 41 x 30cm, a pair
Signed and inscribed
Frank Leah was a cartoonist and caricaturist, the art editor for five Dublin
journals including the Weekly Freeman, he contributed to the Dublin
Evening Telegraph and was an illustrator for Irish Limelight. His portraits of
Irish theatrical personalities were collected by Joseph Holloway and later
donated to the National Library of Ireland.
€ 800 - 1,200




