Ronald Searle | 6 pen and ink illustrations for The Terror of St Trinian's, framed

Ronald Searle.

Original illustrations for The Terror of St Trinian's, comprising:

(i) "Recognised, with a light shudder, by the Board of Education"

(ii) "She twisted her arm with skilful vigour..."

(iii) "'You are still a Liberal?' asked Miss Umbrage interested

(iv) "In the open doorway stood Angela Menace with the battle-light in her eyes"

(v) "Slow-footed Nemesis had caught up with Mr. H. Richmond Weisenheim"

(vi) "As she stood on the west steps of St. Trinians [sic]"

each executed in pen and ink on thick card, each window-mounted on card mounts, framed, and glazed, each 502 x 401mm framed, each c.375 x 275mm unframed, each captioned on typed paper label pasted to verso, each stamped to verso "PLEASE RETURN THIS DRAWING AFTER PUBLICATION TO RONALD SEARLE... 4 APRIL 1952", each with marginal annotations in ink and pencil, some light soiling, mounts faded

A GROUP OF ORIGINAL DRAWINGS FROM THE FOURTH ST TRINIAN'S BOOK, PENNED BY SEARLE IN HIS INIMITABLE STYLE. The adventures set at St Trinian's, the unorthodox boarding school for girls where the pupils are juvenile delinquents, are undoubtedly Searle's most famous works—responsible for cementing his reputation as pre-eminent postwar satirist. The present drawings were reproduced in The Terror of St Trinian's or Angela's Prince Charming (1952), which Searle co-authored with D.B. Wyndham-Lewis (see pp. 14, 21, 59, 71, 117, 121).