Lot 47
  • 47

Rackham, Arthur.

Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 USD
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Description

  • Pandora and EpimetheusWatercolour, 10 1/4 x 7 3/4", signed[for A Woner Book, 1922]
  • signed [for A Woner Book, 1922]
  • Watercolor
  • 10 1/4 x 7 3/4"
  • 260.35 x 196.85 mm
"Pandora and Epimetheus"



10 1/4 by 7 3/4 in., fine ink and watercolor drawing, signed "Arthur Rackham" lower left, matted, framed and glazed (19 1/2 by 17 1/8 in.)

Provenance

Exhibited: Brandywine River Museum, "Flights into Fantasy", September - November 2007

Condition

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Catalogue Note

Published within Rackham's edition of Nathaniel Hawthorne's A Wonder Book (Hodder & Stoughton, [1922]). The piece illustrates the story 'The Paradise of Children' and was used as the frontispiece for the volume.