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BENTLEY, Nicolas.
"I don't see how these nurses can fail to win if Selwyn puts his foot down as firmly as he did with the dockers." 1962
£325
The Macmillan government's "pay pause" continued to sour labour relations. A month later Selwyn Lloyd, the Chancellor, was to lose his job in the "night of the long knives."
Sheet size: 192 × 140 mm. Pen and black ink with blue pencil crayon on wove paper. Stamped on verso for publication in the Daily Mail, 23 May 1962, and with... Read more
BENTLEY, Nicolas.
"I don't think I'll bother to read it. I'll wait and see the film." 1960
£375
On 2 March 1960 the Guillebaud committee published its report on railway workers' pay, recommending substantial pay increases.
Sheet size: 190 × 138 mm. Pen and blank ink heightened with white on wove paper. Stamped on verso for publication in the Daily Mail, 4 March 1960. Read more
BENTLEY, Nicolas.
"I hear bach that it's quite dry in Camarthen, Caernarvon, Pembroke, Denbigh, Anglesey and Merioneth." 1961
£325
Comment, in the light of the recent severe weather, upon the polling in Wales under the 1961 Licensing Act on "dry Sundays." Welsh Sunday Polls were finally abolished in 2003.
Sheet size: 192 × 140 mm. Pen and black ink on wove paper. Stamped on verso for publication in the Daily Mail, 10 November 1961, and with pencil reproduction... Read more
BENTLEY, Nicolas.
"I mean there's such a thing as a sugar daddy getting a bit too sweet - I mean look at Dr Castro." 1960
£325
In June 1960, Eisenhower reduced Cuba's sugar import quota by 7,000,000 tons, and in response, Cuba nationalized some $850 million worth of US property and businesses.
Sheet size: 191 × 140 mm. Pen and ink and blue pencil crayon on wove paper. Stamped on verso for publication in the Daily Mail, 5 July 1960. Read more
(DICKENS, Charles) BROCK, C. E.
"I presided, and the matronly presence faced me". 1900
£450
Original illustration, signed by the artist, for scene in which the poor travellers sit down to their Christmas dinner.
Original pen and ink illustration on card (410 × 285 mm), mounted. Faint marks to margins, with a small closed tear to top edge. In excellent condition. Read more
BENTLEY, Nicolas.
"I propose that instead of the Marseillaise we should sing Charlie is My Darling." 1958
£375
Charles de Gaulle was voted back to power as prime minister by the French Assembly during the May 1958 crisis. He led the writing of a new constitution to found the Fifth Republic...
Sheet size: 191 × 139 mm. Pen and ink on wove paper. One of the heads with pasted overslip. Stamped on verso for publication in the Daily Mail, 28 May 1958. Read more
BENTLEY, Nicolas.
"I quite agree, Mrs. Topham, it's the absolute bottom." (1958-60)
£250
Khrushchev on the telephone. Most likely relates to Mrs. Topham - owner of the Aintree race-course - and her continued dispute with the BBC over broadcast rights to the Grand...
Sheet size: 192 × 140 mm. Pen and black ink with blue crayon on wove paper. From the standard dimensions this drawing was produced for publication in the Daily... Read more
BENTLEY, Nicolas.
"I said, the present situation has nothing to do with it. I just don't care to be likened to the back of a bus." 1958
£325
London bus workers went on strike in May 1958.
Sheet size: 190 × 140 mm. Pen and ink on wove paper. Stamped on verso for publication in the Daily Mail, May 1958. Read more
BENTLEY, Nicolas.
"I say, this isn't going to be three-dimensional, is it?" c. 1955
£400
Sheet size: 210 × 250 mm. Pen and ink on wove paper.
Sheet size: 210 × 250 mm. Pen and ink on wove paper. Read more
(AUSTEN, Jane) BROCK, C. E.
"I think him very disagreeable." 1907
£3,250
The original signed illustration for the "Pride and Prejudice" published in 1907 as part of the "Series of English Idylls" by J. M. Dent & Co. The illustrations Brock created are a...
Original pen-and-ink water colour illustration (370 × 267 mm) presented in a hand made gold leaf frame, with conservation glass and in an attractive wash-line... Read more
BENTLEY, Nicolas.
"I told you didn't I, not to let the T.U.C. dictate your defence policy?" 1960
£375
A blazered man gives a beaten tennis player retrospective advice. The TUC were advocating unilateral nuclear disarmament.
Sheet size: 193 × 139 mm. Pen and ink on wove paper. Stamped on verso for publication in the Daily Mail, 23 June 1960. Read more
(DICKENS, Charles) BROCK, C. E.
"I tried to hint .... that I considered the pie done with". 1900
£375
The original illustration, signed by the artist, of the protagonist remembering having once been "haunted by the ghost of a tremendous pie", that would always be returned to the...
Original pen and ink illustration on card (330 × 235 mm), mounted. Faint marks to margins (some by the artist). In excellent condition. Read more
BENTLEY, Nicolas.
"If we can fire Callas that easy, I reckon getting a moon-rocket in orbit should be kid's play." 1958
£325
Following a row with Maria Callas over the roles she would be taking in the forthcoming season, Rudolf Bing, head of the Metropolitan Opera had sacked her. In January 1958 America...
Sheet size: 192 × 140 mm. Pen and black ink on wove paper. Stamped on verso for publication in the Daily Mail, 8 November 1958, and with pencil reproduction... Read more
(AUSTEN, Jane) BROCK, C. E.
"Is not this nice?" 1907
£2,750
The original signed illustration for the "Pride and Prejudice" published in 1907 as part of the "Series of English Idylls" by J. M. Dent & Co. The illustrations Brock created are a...
Original pen-and-ink watercolour illustration (370 × 267 mm) presented in an attractive conservation wash-line mount. Margins slightly marked. In excellent... Read more
BENTLEY, Nicolas.
"It came as a complete surprise. After all, Dulles hasn't been on a goodwill tour of the Middle East for ages." 1958
£325
A military coup d'état at Baghdad on 14 July 1958 led to the declaration of an Iraqi republic, with support for the military from the Iraqi Communist Party. US Secretary of...
Sheet size: 190 × 140 mm. Pen and ink and blue pencil crayon on wove paper. Stamped on verso for publication in the Daily Mail, 15 Jul 1958. Read more
(DICKENS, Charles) BROCK, C. E.
"It is the hand of a brave Englishman". 1900
£375
The original illustration, signed by the artist, for the scene in which Richard Doubledick meets, for the second time, the French Captain who had been leading the troops at Badajos...
Original pen and ink illustration on card (235 × 284 mm), mounted. Faint marks to edges. In excellent condition. Read more
BENTLEY, Nicolas.
"It may look all right for consultations at the F.O. but you'll have to accentuate the bust a bit to get by in Paris." 1958
£375
Ferment in the Arab world in 1958 led to an influx of Arab diplomats in London and Paris.
Sheet size: 191 × 139 mm. Pen and ink on wove paper. Stamped on verso for publication in the Daily Mail, 30 Jul 1958. Read more
(DICKENS, Charles) BROCK, C. E.
"Let it lie here, while I tell my story". 1900
£375
The original illustration, signed by the artist, for the scene in which a convalescent Richard Doubledick awakens to find that the woman tending to him is his once-estranged love...
Original pen and ink illustration on card (244 × 285 mm), mounted. Faint marks to edges, with a perforation to centre. In very good condition. Read more
BENTLEY, Nicolas.
"Listen, mate, what's three per cent compared to the knowledge that we've all got Macmillan's deep affection?" 1962
£325
PM Harold Macmillan had met representatives of the three rail unions in an effort to stave off strike action threatened as a result of the Beeching reforms.
Sheet size: 192 × 140 mm. Pen and black ink with blue pencil crayon on wove paper. Stamped on verso for publication in the Daily Mail, 16 February 1962, and with... Read more
BENTLEY, Nicolas.
"Listen, that's a funny attitude for a shop steward to adopt." 1961
£325
A cigar-smoking producer regards a high-stepping chorus girl with disapproval. Refers to the Equity Actors' Strike, an industrial dispute between the ITV television companies and...
Sheet size: 190 × 139 mm. Pen and ink on wove paper. Stamped on verso for publication in the Daily Mail, 2 November 1961. Read more
(AUSTEN, Jane) BROCK, C. E.
"Lizzy," said he ... "are you out of your senses to be accepting this man?" 1907
£3,500
The original signed illustration for the "Pride and Prejudice" published in 1907 as part of the "Series of English Idylls" by J. M. Dent & Co. The illustrations Brock created are a...
Original pen-and-ink water colour illustration (370 × 267 mm) presented in a hand made gold leaf frame, with conservation glass and in an attractive wash-line... Read more
BENTLEY, Nicolas.
"Look Uncle Max - a flower for your button-hole!" c. 1935
£400
A small boy confuses his uncle's navel with a button hole.
Sheet size: 194 × 195 mm. Pen and ink on wove paper. Read more
BENTLEY, Nicolas.
"Look, I can't collect your bets for you and be wildcat - which do you want?" 1959
£300
Gently guys the strike culture that had been rather more roughly skewered by the Boulting brothers's comedy I'm All Right Jack, released August 1959.
Sheet size: 192 × 140 mm. Pen and black ink on wove paper. Stamped on verso for publication in the Daily Mail, 19 November 1959, and with pencil reproduction... Read more
(DICKENS, Charles) BROCK, C. E.
"Looking wistfully at what was written there". 1900
£450
The original illustration, signed by the artist, for the moment that protagonist takes to imagining one of the Poor Travellers on the road, in anticipation of their arrival for a...
Original pen and ink illustration on card (265 × 284 mm), mounted. Margins slightly marked. In excellent condition. Read more
BENTLEY, Nicolas.
"Manouche." c. 1960
£350
A tough-looking French gypsy couple, both smoking. Manouche is one term used for the Gypsy jazz (or "Gypsy Swing") idiom popularized by Django Reinhardt.
Sheet size: 165 × 194 mm. Pen and ink on wove paper. Stamped on verso for publication in the Sunday Telegraph. Read more
