180
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HENRY G. PLUMB.
Three works featuring young women, plus three working illustrations for one of the
images. Mixed media and sizes as described, one framed. The three large works all Signed
by Plumb, lower margin. Circa 1880s-90s.
[600/900]
“
The Student” Highly accomplished chalk, ink, and wash portrait, 470x356 mm; 18
1
/
2
x14
inches * Untitled acrylic of girl feeding flower nectar to a hummingbird. 676x552 mm;
26x21
3
/
4
inches, canvas * watercolor, ink, and wash showing a quintet of girls playing cards in
the field of what appears to be their school, shown in the background. 445x610mm; 17
1
/
2
x24
inches, image. Framed in wood and acrylic; with two smaller studies of the image, one small post-
card sized framed watercolor, and an oil on board, plus a rough pencil sketch on tracing paper.
181
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HENRY G. PLUMB.
Group of 4 illustrations of mice.
Mixed media and sizes as noted, all framed. Most are Plumb’s charming genre scenes
(marked as such on label) that he did as jobwork for various publications. Largest image is
368x267 mm; 14
1
/
2
x10
1
/
2
. Signed lower margins. Circa 1880s-90s.
[600/900]
Undated pastel, ink, and watercolor of a rat on a rock, reaching out toward an empty bottle of
rye floating on the water * “Hello!, Hello!”Watercolor, ink, gouache and graphite illustration of
a cat peering down into a basket with a hole in the bottom revealing a nest of mice on a coiled
up clothesline, one peering back at him.With a letter from a conservator in 2001 explaining
work that was performed on the artwork in 2001 * “Comin’Through the Rye.” Color litho-
graph of two cute mice facing each other in triumph after boring through a loaf of rye bread.
Dated 1882 in the image * “The Corn Crib.” Oil on canvas of a mouse and her babies
munching on a corn cob. Label on rear with title and date of 1889.
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