Lot 471: * Wood (Albert Victor Ormsby, 1904-1977). Original

* Wood (Albert Victor Ormsby, 1904-1977). Original sketch album, containing pencil drawings, some with crayon or watercolour, subjects including full-length or head and shoulders portraits, mostly female subjects of a typically stylized form, the album containing 27 leaves with content on most pages, bound in original cloth-backed boards (23 x 29cm), together with another c.1950 sketch album containing very competent drawings of cats by William John Prince of Wandsworth Common. Born in Dublin and attended Metropolitan School of Art in Dublin. Moved to London in the late 1920s and exhibited at the RA and RHA, later living a reclusive life at Ansty, Sussex. (2)