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DODGSON, Charles Lutwidge ("Lewis Carroll") (1832-1898). Autograph letter signed ("C.L. Dodgson") to Mrs E.M. Ward, Christ Church, Oxford, 5 April 1892.
Three pages, bifolium, 87 x 137mm, with transmittal envelope.
"The face is of little importance: but she certainly ought to have a good figure": Dodgson procures a child model for British artist, illustrator, and close friend Gertrude Thompson, who designed the cover for his Nursery Alice (1889) as well as his last book Three Sunsets (1898). The two often drew together from the same models, especially after Dodgson gave up photography. The recipient of the letter, Henrietta Mary Ada Ward (1832-1924), was a painter of the royal family who fell in love with the artist Edward Matthew Ward when she was ten or eleven and married him at sixteen. Dodgson admired Mrs. Ward's painting at the Royal Academy in the late 1850s and photographed her children over the years. Provenance: Justin Schiller (his sale, 9 December 1998, Lot 25).
Three pages, bifolium, 87 x 137mm, with transmittal envelope.
"The face is of little importance: but she certainly ought to have a good figure": Dodgson procures a child model for British artist, illustrator, and close friend Gertrude Thompson, who designed the cover for his Nursery Alice (1889) as well as his last book Three Sunsets (1898). The two often drew together from the same models, especially after Dodgson gave up photography. The recipient of the letter, Henrietta Mary Ada Ward (1832-1924), was a painter of the royal family who fell in love with the artist Edward Matthew Ward when she was ten or eleven and married him at sixteen. Dodgson admired Mrs. Ward's painting at the Royal Academy in the late 1850s and photographed her children over the years. Provenance: Justin Schiller (his sale, 9 December 1998, Lot 25).