Chris Beetles

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Brother Dusty-Feet

Eric Fraser (1902-1983)

Price

£750

Signed

Signed

Medium

Pen ink and watercolour with pencil

Dimensions

6 ¼ x 4 ¾ inches

Provenance

The Artist's Family

Illustrated

Unpublished design for Rosemary Sutcliff, Brother Dusty-Feet, Oxford University Press, 1979, Dust Jacket

Exhibited

'Eric Fraser 1902-1983', Chris Beetles Gallery, April-May 2013, No 283;
'A Century of British Art: 1945-2010', Chris Beetles Gallery, 5 October-6 November 2021, No 286

Eric Fraser was commissioned to design a dust jacket for the 1979 edition of Brother Dusty-Feet, a children’s novel by Rosemary Sutcliff (1920-1992) set in Elizabethan England. However, the project was eventually given to C Walter Hodges (1909-2004), a specialist in the Elizabethan period, who had illustrated the original edition in 1952.

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