Beschreibung:

Original Artwork Browning Sr. (Robert) [1782-1866], Two albums of original 'grotesque style' artwork, comprising; Album 1 - An illustrated manuscript story commencing 'Truth will out father - & must be told some time or other. & you may as well hear it at first as at last. - The fact is - my brother Tom and I are determined to see the world ....., on twenty-one pages, 185mm x 113mm, each page with an ink and watercolour caricature portrait of the men encountered, with ink manuscript below, individually mounted on album pages [followed by] eleven pencil caricatures, several with Arundel connections (see provenance below), each with manuscript description or comment, one loose, the other ten mounted on nine pages, album worn, several pages loose, lacking most of backstrip. Album 2 - [Sketches from the Law Courts, 1831], thirty-one pencil portraits or caricatures, predominantly criminals, some are identified, including 'Black George', 'Tom Pipes' and 'Henry Gubbins of Dark House Lane, Gentleman', others give a location or commentary such as 'first appearance at Bow Street' or 'I'd rather see a Bearbait than a Coronation', pencil on laid paper, various sizes, one torn, thirty mounted on album pages, one loose, well worn album with loose pages, lacking backstrip. [Provenance - descended from a neighbour of Brownings in Peckham, the family later moved to Arundel and maintained contact with Browning, loosely inserted is a three page autograph letter believed to be from Robert Browning Sr. (dated 1829), unfortunately the signature has been excised] [Academic studies can be found online which discuss the influence of Browning Sr.'s 'Grotesque art' on the poetry of his son Robert Browning]