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Description: Original ink and watercolour, heightened in gold, on paper. 20cm x 25cm. Signed in full to the lower right hand corner. In fine, clean condition. A striking painting with a distinctive Glasgow feel. Below the image, in the artist's trademark stylised lettering, is the legend' "And being weary she sat down under a chestnut tree to rest." This image was drawn for the Oscar Wilde fairy story, 'The Star Child'. LITERATURE: A House of Pomegranates by Oscar Wilde (Methuen, 1915), opposite p.142.
Seller: Jonkers Rare Books, Henley on Thames, OXON, United Kingdom
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Description: Original ink and watercolour, heightened in silver on vellum. 28cm x 21cm. Signed in full to the lower right hand corner. In very good condition. This painting, in pastel shades of violet and sage green, is strikingly heightened with silver paint to the trunks of the silver birch trees and was used to illustrate the Oscar Wilde fairy story, The Birthday of the Infanta. Below the image in the artist's trademark stylised lettering is the legend, "His Dream: He would bring her acorn cups and dew drenched anemones and tiny glow worms to be stars in the pale gold of her hair". LITERATURE: A House of Pomegranates by Oscar Wilde (Methuen, 1915). Opposite p.52.
Seller: Jonkers Rare Books, Henley on Thames, OXON, United Kingdom