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MALCOLM FRASER.
“W. W. Rockhill on Murich’u (Panaka country), March
24, 1892.” Pen and ink on board. 371x219 mm; 14
5
/
8
x8
5
/
8
inches, sheet. Signed in ink, lower
right. Scattered light foxing and spotting, writing and publisher’s stamp on verso from The
Century Company Art Department with manuscript information explaining the image
was drawn for the April 1894 article entitled “Driven Out of Tibet.”
[300/400]
A striking portrait of Rockhill, Orientalist and diplomat who made several scientific expedi-
tions for the Smithsonian Institution in Mongolia and Tibet during 1888-92. He then became
a special agent in China after the Boxer insurrection of 1900 and later served as U. S.
Minister to China and Ambassador to Russia andTurkey as well as authoring several books on
Far Eastern studies.
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FRANKWILLARD.
“Moon will now give three lusty cheers.”
4-panel Moon Mullins cartoon. Pen and ink on card. 165x515 mm; 6
1
/
2
x20
1
/
4
inches.
Signed “Willard” and with additional inscription and full signature. Scattered dampstaining,
heaviest to verso. Circa 1930s.
[200/300]
LEADER OFTHE DEATHVALLEY PASSAGE
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MALCOLM FRASER.
Portrait of the Reverend J.W. Brier, DeathValley.
Pen and ink on board illustration for page 39 of “Some Strange Corners of Our Country:
The Wonderland of the Southwest” by Charles F. Lummis. New York: The Century Co.,
1898. 413x298 mm; 16
1
/
4
x11
3
/
4
inches, board. Signed and titled in ink, lower right, Century
Co.Art Department stamp on verso. Some spotting and light soiling in margins, a few spots
and artist’s erasure marks in lower portion of image.
[400/600]
Fraser’s striking portrait of the Rev. James Welsh Brier, the leader of one of the first gold rush
prospector parties to reach San Francisco, who barely survived the journey through the great
desert valley which they later named “DeathValley.”The mid-westerners had set out 134 days
earlier in the autumn of 1849. In the early 1850s Brier wrote the first printed account of the
“Forty-Niners’” trip in the “Christian Advocate,” a religious journal published in San
Francisco.
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