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Lot 120FROM THE COLLECTION OF THE LATE T.G. ROSENTHAL
JACK BUTLER YEATS, R.H.A. (1871-1957)
A Pirate
Fermé24 November 2017
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GBP 2,250
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At this time Yeats experimented extensively with pochoir, a method in which colouring is hand applied with brushes or sponges. In his letter to his friend Frederick York Powell, Yeats discusses this plate of a ruddy nosed pirate for John Masefield’s poem Captain Stratton’s Fancy (1902):
'I send with this a stencil to illustrate a verse out of Masefield's new book which Mr. Ellis Matthews has published. This is a different kind of stencil, the light parts as you will see are brushed through - it looks rather like a woodcut. It may amuse you - Masefield's new book's good I think. I like news from Why dah very much... I wish there was a good pirate saint to do - he would look so fine with crimson breeches dyed with bullocks' blood. There was a pirate once on the mosquito coast who shot one of his men dead for irreverent behaviour during mass'.
Yeats concludes the letter with a witty caricature of a pirate kneeling at the altar, his hat respectfully removed, reading his prayer book while firing his pistol, presumably at a miscreant shipmate.
'I send with this a stencil to illustrate a verse out of Masefield's new book which Mr. Ellis Matthews has published. This is a different kind of stencil, the light parts as you will see are brushed through - it looks rather like a woodcut. It may amuse you - Masefield's new book's good I think. I like news from Why dah very much... I wish there was a good pirate saint to do - he would look so fine with crimson breeches dyed with bullocks' blood. There was a pirate once on the mosquito coast who shot one of his men dead for irreverent behaviour during mass'.
Yeats concludes the letter with a witty caricature of a pirate kneeling at the altar, his hat respectfully removed, reading his prayer book while firing his pistol, presumably at a miscreant shipmate.