ROW 01

01 The intriguing patterns for ideal foot movements from Narvaez, Libro de las Grandezas de la Espada Madrid 1600
 

02 from Gerard Thibault, Academie de l'Espee, Leyden 1628 typical of the elaborate architectural backgrounds to the elaborate sword play in seventeenth century training manuals
 
03 advert for CLARK Candy bar, August 1947 11.5 x 30cms. And a fine piece of unsignedillustration of the high point of a diver's trajectory as she goes into a front tuck. Perhaps a Rick Tamayo, with such luscious paintwork to the clouds.

04  Sidney Strube's cartoon "We Don't Know Where We're Going, But We're on Our Way", from the Daily Express 8th September 1919 ; and rather obviously showing an indeterminate policy towards the emerging Soviet Union during the Civil War period when British troops occupied strategic areas of the new country in defence of oil and other interests. Did Strube need the notices - wasn't the drawing of the body sufficient - wouldn't everybody spot the pantomime Russian costume - how could this image be misinterpreted ?

05 GENERAL ADOPTION OF THE ROLLER-SKATE, Punch February 16 1866 p.68, Lively Appearance of Regent Street in June; Paterfamilias takes his family to the sea-side cheaply; Old Lady caught by the west wind and blown citywards; Charlie likes a nice trot by the side of Lucy; Fred and Emily prefer a more rapid form of progression." 18 x 24cms

ROW 02

01an illustration to an article on Ireland, by Ashley Sterne, in The Passing Show , March 1922. measuring 11 x 18cms; "NOT THE LOCAL COLOUR - Innocent little Irish Southerner who said he liked Oranges." Feeble joke, but an accomplished depiction of a running crowd, coming towards the spectator - by Gilbert Wilkinson. The turbulence of the thrown objects is offset by the telegraph wires that create a sort of perspectival funnel. A well drawn frozen moment with many feet running clear of the ground.

02 A rarely drawn movement is hopping - the figure is always seen at the head of the jump and appears to be floating - all the more delightful this extraordinary print (1827) from the collection of David Plumtree , himself no mean athlete. see also Bobby Van dance sequence a hopping choreography in Small Town Girl, 1952

03 another illustration by Willard Mullin, and imposing on the various images a sequence by numbering the panels. To intensify the action, some figures exist beyond the quadrilateral. From Byrnes 1948.

04 H.M.Bateman's graphic survey of bowling actions in cricket; culminating in the dreaded fast bowler. A well observed sequence of running up to the wicket, bending the back, launching the ball and the trajectory of the delivery.
 "A new disease - the Golf Twist" Punch August 15th 1906, p.109 , 12 x 15cms

ROW 03

01 John Farleigh (ilust) The Adventures of The Black Girl in Her Search for God Constable London 1932; the Black Girl and the Old Man seize the Irish Man, written by Bernard Shaw, whose portrait is used for the Irish Man vainly attempting to vault the gate.

02 makes an interesting comparison, Howard Brodie's reportage studies of a Football Game, from Byrnes as above.

03 PUNCH looks at golf"A new disease - the Golf Twist" Punch August 15th 1906, p.109 , 12 x 15cms
 

04Willard Mullin plots the movement of the Big Punch, from Gene Byrne, Complete Guide, Simon & Schuster 1948. Mullin is the doyen of American sporting artists. This is an interesting insight into the basic lines of flow in a violent section of movement.