Rackham, "Hey! up the chimney, lass! Hey after you!", 1907, original watercolour for The Ingoldsby Legends

RACKHAM, ARTHUR

"Hey! up the chimney, lass! Hey after you!"

330 by 225mm., fine ink and watercolour drawing, signed and dated lower left "Arthur Rackham 07", mounted, framed and glazed

Reproduced as the frontispiece to R.H. Barham's The Ingoldsby Legends, published by J.M. Dent in 1907. This fine watercolour depicts Rob Gilpin and the three witches, Old Goody Price, Old Goody Jones and the young Madge Gray taking to the air on broomsticks with three black cats.

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Sold in these rooms, 11 December 2003, lot 258; Chris Beetles Limited, 'The Illustrators: The British Art of Illustration 1800-2004', number 54

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