12.25x13.75" thin artboard has been matted to 15.5x16.75". Pen and ink illustrations c. Dec., 1929. Back of artboard is marked "King Feature" in pencil, art appearing to have been initially prepared with King Features in mind. Its first public use seems to have been in King Features advertising for the launch of the Mickey Mouse daily newspaper strip on Jan. 13, 1930. These drawings then went on to serve as initial reference guide for Wilfred Haughton and other British Disney comic artists whose first Mickey Mouse Annual was issued in Fall, 1930. Drawings were also used with non-comics-related Disney press releases and publicity campaigns for various merchandise items (domestic and foreign) until Fall, 1931. Notable among these items were the box for Schildkröt's dancing mechanical Mickey figure and the Columbia marquee sign in 1930. Even the famous Mickey Mouse Rosenthal figurines included several based specifically on these poses including both embarrassed Mickeys (second row, second from right and third row, far right with gun). Middle image in third row features Mickey Mouse image that was used as part of front cover logo on early issues of "Topolino," Italy's first regularly published Disney comic book; beginning Mar., 1933 and continuing until Oct., 1936 when it was replaced with a redrawn, modernized update. Sheet contains 15 different images of Mickey Mouse and 2 images of Minnie Mouse, one being serenaded by Mickey who plays horn, another showing her dancing as Mickey plays piano. We've seen original pencil art by Les Clark (the first of Disney's Nine Old Men) for many of these poses . Most of the poses on this sheet appear to have been done by Clark and we believe all images to have been inked by Win Smith. Last image in third row (Mickey with gun) and bottom 4 images appear to have been taken from Ub Iwerks' Mickey Mouse daily strips, altered slightly by Smith to look more like Clark's character model. .25" area of white correctional fluid to leg of piano stool. Piece has trace of aging mostly confined to margins and some random scattered pinpoint dots not affecting images appears along left hand side. Sheet is Fine. Images are Exc. An exceptional and historic piece of original Disney art featuring great Mickey & Minnie images.