Bridgeman, G

John Jorrocks, Esq.: Four depictions of Surtees's colorful fox-hunting hero of Handley Cross and other sporting novels; watercolor on board, each signed G. Bridgman and dated 1882

The Cockney grocer, resplendent in hunting scarlet and mounted on his intermittently faithful Arterxerxes, is shown waving a greeting to cap-touching rurals, approaching a stream during a hunt, emerging safely on the other side, and wending his way home as dusk falls. Size 10-1/2 by 14-1/2 inches, n.p: 1882.

Of Bridgman, Mitchell notes, “Little can be traced of this caricaturist whose figures all have delightful smiling faces with rosy cheeks and noses. A set of four hunting watercollours is recorded, as is “Boxing night at the music hall”. It is possible that the watercolors mentioned are the ones offered here; they appear to have been done as illustrations to one of Surtees's novels, probably his masterpiece, Handley Cross Mitchell, British Equestrian Artists, p. 134.

Item #28872       Price: $2,000.00