Lot 46: Andrew Pitcairn-Knowles (1871-1956) , Harvesting Mistletoe, 1909

19 silver prints, each bearing the photographer's address and copyright restriction stamps on the reverse. Quantity: 19

measurements note each approx. 16.5 x 12 cm (6½ x 4¾ in.)

The Wide-World Magazine, Vol XXIV, no. 141, December 1909.

Pitcairn-Knowles not only worked for many of the new illustrated magazines at the end of the nineteenth century and in the opening years of the twentieth, but he founded several himself specialising in sports imagery. The present series was published in Wide World, a phenomenally successful illustrated paper from the stable of George Newnes, publisher of the Strand Magazine. Wide World purported to include only true stories and so counts as an early precursor of the documentary movement. Entire surviving picture stories by Pitcairn-Knowles are very rare.