Jack Butler Yeats RHA (1871 - 1957) The Scene of a Tragedy Pen and Ink, 25 x 17.5cm (10 x 7”) Signed and inscribed with title Exhibited: Jack B Yeats “Drawings and Pictures of Life in the...

Jack Butler Yeats RHA (1871 - 1957) The Scene of a Tragedy Pen and Ink, 25 x 17.5cm (10 x 7”) Signed and inscribed with title Exhibited: Jack B Yeats “Drawings and Pictures of Life in the West of Ireland”, The Mills Hall, Dublin, March/ April 1918, Catalogue No.31 Literature: “Irish Street Ballads” (1939) by C O’Lochlainn, page 198/9 “The Different Worlds of Jack B Yeats, His Cartoons and Illustrations” by Hilary Pyle, Catalogue No.1986, illustrated page 273 Illustration for A Broadside, No 9, February 1915 A view on Bachelor’s Walk where a little boy points out the place where one of the victims fell on the tragic incident in July 1914 when innocent bystanders were killed by the King’s Own Scottish Borders at a political gathering in Dublin. Yeats later commemorated this event in his famous painting “Bachelor’s Walk: In Memory”.

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