"It was something like a ring of rusty iron or brass, and when the robin flew up into a tree near by [Mary] put out her hand and picked the ring up."
Details
Ernest Howard Shepard (1879-1976)
"It was something like a ring of rusty iron or brass, and when the robin flew up into a tree near by [Mary] put out her hand and picked the ring up."
inscribed "Secret Garden" by the artist on the mount
pencil, pen and black ink and watercolour, unframed
5 x 4½in (13 x 11.5cm.),
and two other unframed watercolour illustrations from The Secret Garden from the chapter "I am Colin" of Mary standing in her nightgown with a candle when she encounters Colin in the middle of the night; and Colin, startled, rubbing his eyes on their chance meeting; together with a copy of the 1956 edition of the book. (3)
"It was something like a ring of rusty iron or brass, and when the robin flew up into a tree near by [Mary] put out her hand and picked the ring up."
inscribed "Secret Garden" by the artist on the mount
pencil, pen and black ink and watercolour, unframed
5 x 4½in (13 x 11.5cm.),
and two other unframed watercolour illustrations from The Secret Garden from the chapter "I am Colin" of Mary standing in her nightgown with a candle when she encounters Colin in the middle of the night; and Colin, startled, rubbing his eyes on their chance meeting; together with a copy of the 1956 edition of the book. (3)
Literature
These watercolours are the coloured versions of the line drawings published in The Secret Garden, by Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Reprint Society Ltd, 1956, Pages. 55, 104 and 105.