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The Peony Lantern

Warwick Goble (1862-1943)

Price
£6,500
Signed
Signed
Medium
Watercolour with ink
Dimensions
13 ½ x 9 inches
Illustrated
Grace James, Green Willow and Other Japanese Fairy Tales, London: MacMillan & Co. Ltd, 1910, facing page 25
Exhibited
'The Illustrators: The British Art of Illustration 1791-2024', Chris Beetles Gallery, London, November 2024-January 2025, no 37

The drawing illustrates The Peony Lantern, a ghost story about a handsome young Samurai in ancient Yedo, named Hagiwara. Whilst hunting for a lost shuttlecock in a mysterious garden, he encounters the beautiful Lady of the Morning Dew, and her handmaiden, O’Yoné. All is not what it seems however, and this fated meeting sets in motion a haunting tale of loss, love and ghostly apparitions carrying a lantern adorned with peonies ...

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