1872 Wood Engraving Poinsinet William Makepeace Tackeray Coward French XGCA9 XEC2 Fairchild Cabin Monoplane

Fairchild Cabin Monoplane

This is an original 1930 two-color print ad for the American Mail Line and Dollar Steamship Lines of New York

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This piece was illustrated by Kosa Jr

1872 Wood Engraving Poinsinet William Makepeace Tackeray Coward French XGCA9 XEC2 Fairchild Cabin MonoplaneThis is an original 1872 black and white wood engraving of a sketch by English novelist William Makepeace Thackeray (1811 1863) entitled "Poinsinet in Disguise." Poinsinet was a short, proud, and foolish man. He was so annoying that his friends regularly played cruel tricks on him, such as getting him to believe he killed a man, hiring a magician to make Poinsinet believe he had become invisible (which was a huge hit at parties), and generally making