A <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?locale=en&amp;Book%20Type=Signed%2520and%2520Inscribed" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">signed</a> watercolor illustration of fairies, "Gossip," by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=William%20Timlin&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">William Timlin</a>.<ul><li>William Timlin (English).</li><li>Signed by Timlin, as well as dated and captioned in his hand, "Gossip."</li><li>Single watercolor, archivally matted and framed.</li></ul> Fabulous signed original watercolor by William Timlin, best known for his fairy-populated science-fiction fantasy, The Ship That Sailed To Mars. Although Timlin was born in England, he was raised in South Africa. Along with his success in painting, Timlin was also a practicing architect. The Ship That Sailed To Mars was Timlin's masterpiece, of which this artwork is reminiscent. He executed a later series of pictures intended for a book to be called The Building Of A Fairy City, but which was never published. Accomplished with rich colors in Timlin's Rackhamesque style, the fanciful picture shows a huge tree trunk used as a house. Standing at the door of the tree house is a young woman who is talking to a gnome-like man who is leaning on a fence. Peeking out of a window in the tree house is an elf-like man. Done with much detail and quite wonderful.

"Gossip" Fairies Illustration

A <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book/first-edition?locale=en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">first edition</a> of <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=The%20Ship%20That%20Sailed%20to%20Mars&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Ship That Sailed to Mars </a>by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=William%20Timlin&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">William Timlin</a>.<ul><li>William Timlin (South African).</li><li>London:&nbsp;George G. Harrap &amp; Company,&nbsp;[1923]. </li><li>Quarto.</li><li>96 leaves of heavy grey paper, containing 48 mounted pages of printed lettering in Timlin's hand and 48 mounted full color illustrations. </li><li>Original quarter vellum, grey printed paper boards, spine lettered and ornamented in gilt, in original printed dust jacket. </li></ul> First edition, in the original dust jacket, of this gorgeous outlier of the Golden Age of Illustration, a fantasy of interplanetary travel by South African architect William Timlin. An Old Man fulfills the dream of his youth, "sailing by way of the Moon, and the more friendly planets" on his way to the Shining City of Mars. The ship of the title, designed by the aged engineer but built by fairies, captures the tale's balance of science fiction and fantasy: one iconic plate depicts the ship, whose design hearkens back to the Age of Discovery, outrunning the magnificent flare of a meteor. The only work authored by Timlin, The Ship That Sailed To Mars secured his reputation alongside prolific professional illustrators like Arthur Rackham, Edmund Dulac, and Kay Nielsen. A beautiful copy of a strikingly original space odyssey.

The Ship That Sailed To Mars First Edition

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