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RACKHAM, Arthur (1867-1939). "Get Secretly Behind the Tree," original watercolor and pen and ink drawing, signed and dated ("Arthur Rackham 1931") lower right, 1931.
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RACKHAM, Arthur (1867-1939). "Get Secretly Behind the Tree," original watercolor and pen and ink drawing, signed and dated ("Arthur Rackham 1931") lower right, 1931.
An idyllic scene from Walton's Compleat Angler. "I am glad to enter you into the art of fishing by catching a chub, for there is no fish better to enter a young angler ... Go to the same hole in which I caught my chub, where in most hot days you will find a dozen or twenty chevens floating near the top of the water; get two or three grasshoppers as you go over the meadow, and get secretly behind the tree..." (p. 69). Published: WALTON, Izaak (1593-1683). The Compleat Angler. London: George G. Harrap [1931], color plate at p. 68 (a copy of the book is included with the lot).
245 x 174mm (sight size), watercolor and pen and ink on illustration board (toned). Matted, glazed and framed. The book is the first Rackham, limited edition, signed by the artist, one of 775 copies. Quarto. 12 color plates (some foxing). Original vellum gilt; board slipcase. Provenance: Ernest Brown & Phillips, at the Leicester Galleries (label preserved on verso of frame, from exhibition in December 1935) – sold to Colonel C. Thomas.
An idyllic scene from Walton's Compleat Angler. "I am glad to enter you into the art of fishing by catching a chub, for there is no fish better to enter a young angler ... Go to the same hole in which I caught my chub, where in most hot days you will find a dozen or twenty chevens floating near the top of the water; get two or three grasshoppers as you go over the meadow, and get secretly behind the tree..." (p. 69). Published: WALTON, Izaak (1593-1683). The Compleat Angler. London: George G. Harrap [1931], color plate at p. 68 (a copy of the book is included with the lot).
245 x 174mm (sight size), watercolor and pen and ink on illustration board (toned). Matted, glazed and framed. The book is the first Rackham, limited edition, signed by the artist, one of 775 copies. Quarto. 12 color plates (some foxing). Original vellum gilt; board slipcase. Provenance: Ernest Brown & Phillips, at the Leicester Galleries (label preserved on verso of frame, from exhibition in December 1935) – sold to Colonel C. Thomas.