# - Johnston, Rev. George Liddell.

i) 110 by 414mm., ink and watercolour drawing heightened with gouache showing six figures, including two ballerinas with tambourines and a boy seated on a white bird; ii) 136 by 326mm., ink drawing heightened with gouache showing three figures, one snake and two dragon-type creatures; iii) 155 by 417mm., ink drawing showing man riding a lion, woman riding a snake, an ogre returning from fishing, and four goblins; all unsigned, mounted framed and glazed (3)

George Liddell Johnston was born in Sunderland in 1817, was ordained minister in 1849 and became chaplain to the British Embassy in Vienna. He retired in 1885 and died in 1902. These scenes reveal his typically disturbing predeliction of a bachelor clergyman for the macabre and grotesque.