The Art of Illustration

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Lot 67
  • 67

Arthur Rackham.

Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 GBP
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Description

  • Arthur Rackham
  • "The Shipwrecked Man and the Sea"
  • INK AND WATERCOLOUR DRAWING ON PAPER / BOARD
340 by 241mm., ink and watercolour drawing, signed and dated lower left, mounted, framed and glazed

Provenance

Leicester Galleries, October - November 1912, number 24

Catalogue Note

Reproduced as one of thirteen colour plates within Aesop's Fables (Heinemann, 1912). The illustration, which is dated 1912, accompanies the fable 'The Shipwrecked Man and the Sea' and appears facing page 70. The frame includes two labels from the Leicester Galleries exhibition, both of which are worn with some loss.