Dulac, Edmund

Estimate

7,000 - 9,000 GBP

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Description

Dulac, Edmund
"When Morgiana, who had remained all this time on the watch"
INK AND WATERCOLOUR DRAWING ON PAPER/BOARD

370 by 218mm., ink and watercolour drawing, signed and dated lower right, mounted, framed and glazed

Provenance

Leicester Galleries, November - December 1907, number 32 (sold to J. Strain)

Catalogue Note

Reproduced, as the twenty-fourth of fifty colour plates, within Stories from The Arabian Nights (Hodder and Stoughton, 1907). The illustration, dated 1907, shows Morgiana watching the departure of the captain of the robbers (not shown) from 'Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves'. Original labels from The Leicester Galleries exhibition are preserved on the frame backing.