Chris Beetles Gallery

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The Indian Fairy

Charles Doyle (1832-1893)

Price

£3,500

Medium

Pen ink and watercolour with pencil

Dimensions

7 x 5 ¼ inches

Exhibited

'The Illustrators. The British Art of Illustration 1870-2010', Chris Beetles Gallery, 2010, No 18;
'Fairies in Illustration', Heath Robinson Museum, Pinner, 30 November 2019-23 February 2020

Taken from a sketch book of the 1880s, which is inscribed 'Ida with Mama's love' and dated '11th April 1899' on the inside front cover. Ida was the nickname of Doyle's second youngest daughter, Jane Adelaide Rose.

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