Artist

H.C. Maguire

H.C. Maguire is an Impressionism artist. 2 works are cataloged here, principally at Victoria and Albert Museum.

H.C. Maguire spent his days tucked in a print shop near Covent Garden, where he turned sheet music covers into tiny stories, ladies in crinolines dancing, clowns with oversized shoes, scenes that felt like the 19th-century version of memes. He had a knack for squeezing drama into a few inches of paper, always leaving room for a joke in the border. Find him through the Edward L Davenport print from the 1800s, where a dapper man in a top hat winks straight at you, no museum guard will stop you from grinning back.

Works by H.C. Maguire

Collections represented

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