Diana the Huntress

Details

Sir William Russell Flint, R.A., P.R.W.S., R.S.W. (1880-1969)
Diana the Huntress
signed 'W. RUSSELL FLINT' (lower left) and inscribed 'Refer to as Diana for convenience/Lisping Goddess/W Russell Flint/Nov 1964' (on the reverse)
pencil and watercolour, on paper
15½ x 10½ in. (39.4 x 26.7 cm.)

Provenance

Anonymous sale; Bonhams, London, 19 May 1990, lot 189.

Engraved

Engraved as a frontispiece for Sir William Russell Flint, Lisping Goddess, a Figurehead Fantasy: Comments & Conversations Philosophical, Romantical, Factual & Mendacious, Poetical & Impertinent, by Loquacious Mariners, Stanbrook Abbey Press, London, 1968.

Special notice

Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.

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Lot Essay

Flint's Lisping Goddess, a Figurehead Fantasy was illustrated with twenty-six pencil drawings and two watercolours. Only two hundred and seventy-five copies were printed and the book was a tribute to the ship figureheads in the Sidney Cumber Collection on the Cutty Sark ship at Greenwich.

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