I Say That She Is Worthy of Death

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I Say That She Is Worthy of Death

Byam Shaw (1872-1919)

SIGNED AND DATED 1902
SIGNED WITH MONOGRAM AND INSCRIBED 'NOT THAT CRIED THE POOR GIRL (OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT I CAN'T FIND THE PROOF' ON REVERSE
INSCRIBED 'PEARL MAIDEN' AND '2738', AND DATED 'SEPT 27/1902' ON REVERSE IN ANOTHER HAND
PEN AND INK
10 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, 27 SEPTEMBER 1902, PAGE 413, '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 243
EXHIBITED: 'THE ILLUSTRATORS. THE BRITISH ART OF ILLUSTRATION
1800-2014', NOVEMBER 2014 - JANUARY 2015, NO 150

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£1,250

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