Phil May Watercolour Drawing Gloom Circa.1890 trade card A group of three red

A group of three red chalk and pencil studies of women

Century Watercolour study for a family group portrait

Ellen Wallace Sharples 1769-1849 Portrait of a boy in a blue brass buttoned jacket

His work was extensively collected in his lifetime

Executed on laid paper laid on to later backing sheet

Phil May Watercolour Drawing Gloom Circa.1890 trade card A group of three redPhil May 1864 1903 Watercolour drawing entitled "Gloom" Signed lower left 23 by 30 cms to mounted image. 40. 5 by 48 cms overall in frame. Philip William May was a celebrated English caricaturist who played an important role in moving the art of caricature away from the Victorian and into the modern form of humorous cartoon.