Set Reminder2023-10-28 12:00:002023-10-28 12:00:00America/New_YorkBidsquareBidsquare : The Ricky Jay Collection Part II https://www.bidsquare.com/auctions/potter-potter/the-ricky-jay-collection-part-ii-21921 Unusual relics were the hallmark of Ricky Jay's storied collection. This second auction from his archives features an astonishing array of the fantastic, the funny, and the flabbergasting.
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ATKINSON, Mrs.?THE WONDERFUL MRS. ATKINSON.?[London: Thomas Palser], ca. 1815. Delicately hand-colored etching after a drawing by George Moreland, being a full-length image of the pig-faced Irish woman who, according to the caption, was, ??married to a gentleman in Ireland of that name, having 20,000 [pound] fortune. She is fed out of a silver hog-trough and is called to her meals by Pig-Pig-Pig.? Archivally framed to 17? ? 14?". Margins trimmed away (eliminating some text). Not examined out of frame. Exhibited as part of Ricky Jay?s Extraordinary Exhibitions, Hammer Museum (Los Angeles). Original museum tags to frame verso.