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OUTHWAITE | "Fairy Beauty looking over the Happy Valley", ink and watercolour, 1921

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December 10, 03:28 PM GMT

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OUTHWAITE, IDA RENTOUL

"Fairy Beauty looking over the Happy Valley"


430 by 360mm., fine ink and watercolour drawing, signed lower left "Ida Rentoul Outhwaite", captioned "The Happy Valley" below mount, mounted, framed and glazed, some minor browning at extremities and traces of previous mount


Reproduced as the frontispiece of The Enchanted Forest by Ida Rentoul Outhwaite and her husband, Grenbry Outhwaite (published by A. & C. Black in 1921). Reviewing the book in the Times Literary Supplement, it was described as "a very pretty story" and that the pictures "all are very pretty without being pretty-pretty".


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