The Fantasy World of Arthur Rackham: Rare Original Illustrations from the Collection of Shirley Carter Burden

The Fantasy World of Arthur Rackham: Rare Original Illustrations from the Collection of Shirley Carter Burden

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Arthur Rackham | Original illustration for The Vicar of Wakefield (A favourite song of Dryden's)

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10,000 - 15,000 GBP

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Arthur Rackham

“A favourite song of Dryden's”


305 x 203mm. (12 x 8 inches), ink and watercolour drawing on paper, incorporating text for dust-jacket design (“The Vicar of Wakefield | Oliver Goldsmith | Illustrated by Arthur Rackham”), signed lower right


Reproduced in The Vicar of Wakefield, dust-jacket and plate 3


PROVENANCE:

Exhibited Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 1974