Six Newcastle United caricatures by Alfred Kingsley Lawrence, circa 1920, the first featuring Frankie Hudspeth with a seated magpie holding a card stating N.F.C TOTAL PENALTY KICKS TAKEN 7 TOTAL PENALTY KICKS CONVERTED 7 F. HUSPETH N.F.C and captioned ‘Magpie: A very canny record, Frankie me Lad’ in pencil, signed AKL, pen and ink on artist's paper, 39 by 28cm.; the team doctor with a magpie, captioned ‘Doctor: what you require, Sir, is NEW BLOOD’, signed AKL, pen and ink on artist's board, 29 by 23cm.; and four further caricatures of players with a football, each in pen and ink and signed AKL on artist's paper, some wear to each with tears to paper edges, creases, some foxingAlfred Kingsley Lawrence (1893-1975) was born in Lewes, East Sussex. He studied at King Edward VII School of Art in Newcastle upon Tyne under Richard Hatton, at Royal College of Art with William Rothenstein and then in Italy as a Prix de Rome winner, 1923. He was Elected RA in 1938.
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Six Newcastle United caricatures by Alfred Kingsley Lawrence, circa 1920, the first featuring Frankie Hudspeth with a seated magpie holding a card stating N.F.C TOTAL PENALTY KICKS TAKEN 7 TOTAL PENALTY KICKS CONVERTED 7 F. HUSPETH N.F.C and captioned ‘Magpie: A very canny record, Frankie me Lad’ in pencil, signed AKL, pen and ink on artist's paper, 39 by 28cm.; the team doctor with a magpie, captioned ‘Doctor: what you require, Sir, is NEW BLOOD’, signed AKL, pen and ink on artist's board, 29 by 23cm.; and four further caricatures of players with a football, each in pen and ink and signed AKL on artist's paper, some wear to each with tears to paper edges, creases, some foxingAlfred Kingsley Lawrence (1893-1975) was born in Lewes, East Sussex. He studied at King Edward VII School of Art in Newcastle upon Tyne under Richard Hatton, at Royal College of Art with William Rothenstein and then in Italy as a Prix de Rome winner, 1923. He was Elected RA in 1938.