Edmund Dulac | Original illustration for Shirley, ("... two ladies sat and sewed"), 1904, signed by the artist

Edmund Dulac



"All the afternoon the two ladies sat and sewed", 1904

230 x 150mm. (frame 552 x 448mm.), watercolour, SIGNED AND DATED BY THE ARTIST TO LOWER LEFT ("04"), framed and glazed

Original illustration for Shirley by Charlotte Brontë, depicting Caroline and Mademoiselle Moore sewing together. This illustration comes from Dulac's first commission, at just twenty-two years old, from J. M. Dent to produce 60 illustrations for a new edition of the complete novels of the Brontë sisters

For another original illustration for the same work, see lot 259

PROVENANCE:

From the collection of the late Colin White

LITERATURE:

Charlotte Brontë, Shirley in The Novels of the Bronte Sisters in 10 volumes , J.M Dent: London, 1905, volume 1 p.88; Colin White, Edmund Dulac, 1976, p.20