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Robinson Crusoe's birth and parentage. His disregard of his father's warning that distress and misery will follow if he persists in his desire to go to sea

Edward Ardizzone (1900-1979)


Price
£750

Medium
Ink

Dimensions
4 x 7 ¼ inches

Illustrated
Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe, London: Nonesuch Press, 1968, page 17, heading to chapter I

Exhibited
'The Human Touch: The Art of Edward Ardizzone', Chris Beetles Gallery, London, April-May 2025

'I was born in the year 1632, in the city of York, of a good family, though not of that country, my father being a foreigner of Bremen, who settled first at Hull' page 17


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