Estimate: $300 - $500
Price Realized: $266 Includes buyer's premium
An early twentieth-century American illustration drawing executed in pen and ink on paper titled The Embarkment by maritime and narrative artist Gordon Grant, depicting a bustling crowd of figures in period attire carrying trunks and luggage along a dockside boarding area, signed and dated "Gordon Grant / 10" in ink within the lower left composition area
Pen and ink
sight: 17 1/2 x 22 inches
Signed lower left
From a Private Collection
Good condition; not examined out of frame; uniform light browning to the paper sheet consistent with age, the ink medium remaining fully stable and bold
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wood frame with glazing: 26 1/2 x 34 x 1
