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The History Sale 19

th

April 2016

30 ARTHUR GRIFFITH & MICHAEL COLLINS

Memorial 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