– and certainly I should then have killed him with the knife I held but that he was riding a white horse to which he clapped spurs, leaving his cape in my grasp, in order to preserve his life
Book I Chap XXXIII
Eric Fraser (1902-1983)
Price
£2,250
Signed
Signed Inscribed with title on original mount
Medium
Pen ink and watercolour
Dimensions
10 x 8 ¼
inches
Provenance
The Artist's Family
Illustrated
Speculative illustration for The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini
Literature
Ashley Havinden, Line Drawing for Reproduction, London: The Studio Publications ['How To Do It' Series No 4], 1941 (Revised Edition), Page 67, as 'One of a series of drawings for "Benvenuto Cellini"'
Exhibited
'Eric Fraser 1902-1983', Chris Beetles Gallery, April-May 2013, No 31