It was the day I came here. I had caught the Beaucaire stage-coach, an old ramshackle conveyance which hasn't a long way to go before it finds its final home, but which dawdles along the roads in order to look as if it has come a long distance when it arrives in the evening.
Edward Ardizzone (1900-1979)
Price
£1,750
Signed
Inscribed 'The Beau-Caire Stage-Coach' below mount
Medium
Ink
Dimensions
7 ½ x 6 ½
inches
Illustrated
Alphonse Daudet, Letters from my Windmill, London: Penguin Books, 1978, page 53, 'The Beaucaire Stage-Coach'
Exhibited
'The Human Touch: The Art of Edward Ardizzone', Chris Beetles Gallery, London, April-May 2025