Sale 8629
London, South Kensington
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17 December 1999
Price realised
GBP 1,725
Estimate
A small Quantity of unframed Watercolours for The Tailor and the Crow by Leonard Leslie Brooke (1863-1940), including: Front cover design; Sing heigh, ho, the carrion crow; Fol de riddle, and others, all signed with initials 8 x 6in. (21 x 16.5cm.) and smaller
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Literature
Original illustrations for The Tailor and the Crow, An old rhyme with new drawings by L. Leslie Brooke, published by Frederick Warne & Co Ltd
With her high-piled ringlets, gold earrings and heavy black kohl, the woman portrayed in this funerary painting offers a glimpse of life almost 2,000 years ago
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