Whereon He Embraced the Marble and then Me

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Whereon He Embraced the Marble and then Me

Byam Shaw (1872-1919)

SIGNED AND DATED 1902
INSCRIBED WITH TITLE ON REVERSE
INSCRIBED 'PEARL MAIDEN' AND 'GRAPHIC' AND WITH PRINTING INSTRUCTIONS, AND DATED 'AUG 30/02' ON REVERSE IN ANOTHER HAND
PEN AND INK WITH COLOURED PENCIL
10 1/4 X 10 3/4 INCHES
PROVENANCE: SIR HUGH WALPOLE;
'FIFTH PORTION OF THE FAMOUS LIBRARY OF THE LATE SIR
HUGH WALPOLE, CBE', CHRISTIE'S, 7 MAY 1946, LOT 297
ILLUSTRATED: THE GRAPHIC, 30 AUGUST 1902, PAGE 277, 'PEARL MAIDEN' BY
H RIDER HAGGARD; H RIDER HAGGARD, PEARL-MAIDEN. A TALE
OF JERUSALEM, LONDON & NEW YORK:
LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO, 1903, FACING PAGE 163
EXHIBITED: 'THE ILLUSTRATORS. THE BRITISH ART OF ILLUSTRATION
1800-2014', NOVEMBER 2014 - JANUARY 2015, NO 146

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£1,450

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