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Crusoe makes plans for survival. He erects a wooden cross and carves upon it the date he was cast away

Edward Ardizzone (1900-1979)

Price
£650
Medium
Ink
Dimensions
4 x 7 ¼ inches
Illustrated
Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe, London: Nonesuch Press, 1968, page 75, heading to chapter VIII
Exhibited
'The Human Touch: The Art of Edward Ardizzone', Chris Beetles Gallery, London, April-May 2025

'I cut it with my knife upon a large post, in capital letters; and making it into a great cross, I set it up on the shore where I first landed, viz., ‘I came on shore here on 30th September 1659’' page 75/76

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