Cuthbert Bede - 19th Century Pen and Ink Drawing "How She'll Jump!"

Description

Cuthbert Bede - Original 19th Century Pen and Ink Drawing. From an album of drawings and watercolours belonging to Mary Emily Heathcote, dated 1851. Signed and inscribed. Small brown stains near lower corners as pictured.

Cuthbert Bede was the pseudonym for Edward Bradley (1827-1889), an English novelist and clergyman. Edward Bradley was an English novelist and clergyman. Edward Bradley was born in Kidderminster on March 25th 1827, the second son of Thomas Bradley, a surgeon. Even as a child he delighted in sketching and showed a keen sense of observation. If he had seen anything of interest he would ask for a slate on returning home and sketch the scene with great skill. His brother, Thomas Waldron Bradley, was also a writer whose two novels, Grantley Grange and Nelly Hamilton, were published in 1874 and 1875. Pseudonyms were popular in the Bradley family. Edward Bradley usually used the pseudonym of Cuthbert Bede, and his brother that of Shelsley Beauchamp. I recently bought a volume of reprints from The London Magazine, Illustrated with the title London Tales Sketches Poetry and Travels which contains pieces by both Cuthbert Bede and Shelsley Beauchamp. Their uncle, William Bradley (to whom Edward Bradley dedicated one of his novels, Nearer and Dearer), was the author of Sketches of the Poor by a retired Guardian.

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Size

17.6 x 12.8cm (6.9" x 5")

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