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To Me He was Unweariedly Kind

John Minton (1917-1957)

Price
£2,750
Medium
Ink
Dimensions
7 ¾ x 6 inches
Provenance
Luke Gertler Collection
Illustrated
Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, London: Camden Classics. Elek, 1947, page 73
Exhibited
'A Century of Illustration', IBIS at Bonham's, London, August 2000, no 40;
'The Illustrators: The British Art of Illustration 1791-2024', Chris Beetles Gallery, London, November 2024-January 2025, no 150

'To me he was unweariedly kind, and always glad to see me in the galley, which he kept as clean as a new pin, the dishes hanging up burnished, and his parrot in a cage in one corner. And the parrot would say, with great rapidity, “Pieces of eight! pieces of eight! pieces of eight!”’

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