Lot 140
  • 140

Rackham, Arthur

Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 USD
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Description

  • ink and paint on board
"The Hag of the Mill" 

Ink and pencil with watercolor drawing, signed in full in lower left (10 x 8 1/2 ins; 260 x 200 mm). Mounted on old card, some matt burn around edges, minor fading.

Literature

Stephens. Irish Fairy Tales. p. 310

Catalogue Note

original rackham illustration for "irish fairy tales."   The present is captioned in Stephens' 1920 work, "The hag of the mill was a bony, thin pole of a hag with odd feet."