A Maiden walking alone hears a cry and searching about findeth a little child

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Bernard Sleigh (1872-1954)
A Maiden walking alone hears a cry and searching about findeth a little child
signed with monogram (lower left) and inscribed as titled (lower centre, in the margin)
pen and black ink, heightened with white, the child's head on an attached sheet
8½ x 5¾ in. (21.7 x 14.5 cm.)

Provenance

with Julian Hartnoll, London.

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Lot Essay

Sleigh's apprenticeship to a commercial process engraver was to determine his later career, for he was adopted as the chief wood engraver to the artists of the Birmingham School. He was considered the most visionary of the Birmingham artists and Sleigh's commission to illustrate George MacDonald's second Phantastes in 1894 was thus an appropriate one. The present drawing is a projected illustration for this publication.

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