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 11. Arthur Rackham | Original illustration for Aesop's Fables ("Medicine Show"), 1912.

Arthur Rackham | Original illustration for Aesop's Fables ("Medicine Show"), 1912

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December 1, 02:10 PM GMT

Estimate

10,000 - 15,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Arthur Rackham

“The quack frog”


250 x 177mm. (9 ⅞ x 7 inches), ink and watercolour drawing, signed and dated 1912 top left


Reproduced as a colour plate in Aesop's Fables, 1912 (“Medicine Show”), plate 5


PROVENANCE:

Leicester Galleries, October-November 1912, number 34

Exhibited Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 1974