[Arthur Rackham] | A drawing of two silhouettes, with manuscript captions ("Pilldoctor")

[Arthur Rackham]

A drawing of two Sillhouettes ("Pilldoctor")

157 x 224mm. (frame 458 x 402mm.), pen and ink, with white gouache highlights, with two manuscript captions, mounted, framed, and glazed, foxing, some chips to frame

"Rackham was a master of pen and ink sillhouettes. It was a technique eagerly embraced by publishers especially after the war since the costs of printing in just black and white were greatly reduced.... [Rackham] even lectured on the technique at the London Art Workers' Guild in 1919" (Engen).

LITERATURE:

Rodney Engen, Arthur Rackham. London, 2002, p. 76