Description
Christie's South Kensington, Published 2001. Wraps, 61 pp.; 27 cm; illustrated throughout, chiefly with color reproductions.
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Condition & notes
In Very Good condition. Glossy illustrated wrappers with mild shelf wear and light bumping and creasing to edges. Binding tight, pages clean. Otherwise unmarked.Auction catalogue for Christie's South Kensington sale DRG-9131, held 14 June 2001: British and Continental watercolours, drawings, and original book illustrations across 236 lots, each with description, dimensions, medium, and estimate, most illustrated. Strong in original book illustration, including drawings by Ernest H. Shepard (with Winnie-the-Pooh material), Ronald Searle, Louis Wain, Norman Thelwell, and Carl Giles, alongside Victorian and Pre-Raphaelite watercolours (John Melhuish Strudwick, Sir Thomas Lawrence) and topographical views. Properties from the estates of Nora Swinburne, Humphrey Whitbred, and Edith Clay. With index.