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SIGNED AND DATED 1902
INSCRIBED 'MARRIAGE OF MIRIAM & MARCUS' ON REVERSE
INSCRIBED 'PEARL MAIDEN' AND '3383', AND DATED 'DECR 27/02' ON REVERSE IN ANOTHER HAND
PEN AND INK
9 1/2 X 10 1/4 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, 27 DECEMBER 1902, PAGE 873, '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 463
EXHIBITED: 'THE ILLUSTRATORS. THE BRITISH ART OF ILLUSTRATION
1800-2014', NOVEMBER 2014 - JANUARY 2015, NO 163