Lot 114
  • 114

Jessie Willcox Smith 1863-1935

Estimate
60,000 - 80,000 USD
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Description

  • Jessie Willcox Smith
  • The Little Em'ly
  • signed Jessie Willcox Smith, l.r.
  • mixed media on illustration board
  • 26 1/4 by 18 1/2 in.
  • (66.7 by 47.0 cm)
  • Executed circa 1912.

Provenance

Frances Stotesbury Mitchell (friend of the artist)
By descent in the family to the present owner

Exhibited

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and the Philadelphia Water Color Club, 11th Annual Philadelphia Water Color Exhibition, 1913

Literature

Scribner's Magazine, August 1912, illustrated
Dickens's Children, New York, 1912, illustrated in color p. 45
Edward D. Nudelman, Jessie Willcox Smith: A Biography, Gretna, Louisiana, 1989, p. 59

Condition

Very good condition, pin holes along edges, some paper buckling in center; under UV: inpainting in her back leg and two small dashes of inpainting to the pier, otherwise fine. Please note the following additional exhibition history: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and the Philadelphia Water Color Club, 11th Annual Philadelphia Water Color Exhibition, 1913.
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Catalogue Note

The present work was an illustration for Dickens's Children, published by Charles Scribner's Sons in 1912.