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

View full screen - View 1 of Lot 17. Arthur Rackham | Original illustration for Comus (And they, so perfect is their misery...), 1914.

Arthur Rackham | Original illustration for Comus (And they, so perfect is their misery...), 1914

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December 1, 02:14 PM GMT

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8,000 - 12,000 GBP

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Arthur Rackham

“And they, so perfect is their misery…”


203 x 149mm. (8 ¾ x 5 ⅞ inches), ink and watercolour drawing on paper, signed and dated 1914 lower left


Reproduced as a colour plate in Comus, 1921, plate 2


PROVENANCE:

Exhibited Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 1974