The Art of Illustration

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Lot 19
  • 19

Edmund Dulac.

Estimate
12,000 - 16,000 GBP
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Description

  • Edmund Dulac
  • "I met her deity cutting the clouds towards Paphos"
  • INK AND WATERCOLOUR DRAWING ON PAPER/BOARD
425 by 290mm., ink and watercolour drawing, signed and dated lower left, mounted, framed and glazed

Provenance

Leicester Galleries, November - December 1908, number 32 (sold to K.A. Wolfe Barry); Exhibited at Sheffield City Art Galleries, November 1982 to May 1983, no 13b

Catalogue Note

Reproduced, as the twenty-second of forty colour plates, within Dulac's edition of The Tempest (Hodder and Stoughton, 1908). The plate appears opposite page 70 and illustrates Iris' speech in Act IV, scene i, being part of Prospero's performance of his art for Ferdinand and Miranda. Original labels from The Leicester Galleries exhibition are preserved on the frame backing.