535 by 370mm., pen, ink and monochrome watercolour drawing, signed and dated lower middle "Ronald Searle 1954", mounted, framed and glazed

Chris Beetles Limited, "The British Art of Illustration 1800-1997", no. 548

The British Art of Illustration 1800-1997, no.548

Condition is described in the main body of the cataloguing, where appropriate.
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Reproduced within News Chronicle, 16 October 1954 and collected within Merry England, etc. (Perpetua Books, 1956), pp.33-34, 36-37 and dust-jacket; and Ronald Searle's Golden Oldies, 1941-1961 (Pavilion Books, 1985), p. 61