William "Bill" Scully (British, 1917-2002). An extensive archive including almost 200 original cartoons, predominantly ink & wash, some with printed parts & wash, most signed, most with manuscript captions; mostly loose, some mounted, three framed; some accompanied by clippings of their published counterparts. To include the original artwork for the cover of Punch magazine, December 1988, together with the published version. The archive includes two small sketchbooks of rough ink drawings (figures, faces, gestures), plus a diary utilised for the same purpose, and a folder containing loose ink sketches & clippings; Scully's scrapbook of clippings published in Punch, Men Only and London Opinion, 1948, the cover designed by Scully, occasional annotated dates in ink, and another similar scrapbook of published works from the early part of Scully's career, 1940s; an accounts book copiously filled with entries [in Scully's hand] recording details of cartoons submitted to Punch, Spectator, Private Eye, Home & Country, Evening Standard, 1970s-90s; five manuscript notebooks & albums copiously filled with Scully's captions & ideas, some marked in red as 'OK', some recording submissions to Punch, Spectator, Telegraph, Oldie, one notebook titled 'Roughs sent to The Spectator', one titled 'Drawings Dispatched, Telegraph, Spectator' (recording dates/captions/prices); three folders of letters, including correspondence from editors, publishers, other artists, 1940s-60s, including Russell Brockbank, Bill Sillince, Kaye Webb, Ernest Blaikley, Punch, Toby Club, Savage Club, and others, some letters from later in Scully's career, 1990s/2000s, including editors of Spectator, Oldie, Telegraph; five albums & binders of published clippings, some bearing Scully's owner inscriptions/details, some of the clippings with ms captions; three b&w photographs taken at the Toby Club or Punch Annual Dinner; several loose copies of London Opinion, Spectator; a cased set of Rowney's Artists' Pastels, and four paintbrushes. The original cartoons are in various sizes, well-preserved & bright
An obituary published in The Independent, 13 November, 2002, stated, 'For more than 60 years, Bill Scully was one of the most successful cartoonists of his generation. His drawings were still being published only weeks before his death at the age of 92. Indeed, in a bizarre turn of events, a recent edition of the Spectator magazine was returned from the press with one of his cartoons completely blacked out. When the cartoon editor rang him to apologise for the error, he discovered that Scully had died that very week.' William Patrick Scully was born in Ilkeston, Derbyshire, in 1910.
Realised Price: £950
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