Art
WONDERFUL ORIGINAL DRAWINGS BY MUIRHEAD BONE
BONE
(Sir Muirhead, 1876-1953, Water-colour Painter & Etcher, War Artist)
Two Delightful Drawings done as a boy in Coloured Crayon, one Signed,
the first, inscribed below 'WITH LOVE FR[O]M Muirhead Bone' reads 'MY HOTEL' over the door, two storeys with bay windows and an attic storey, with a roof of round-bottomed tiles, he has altered two of the attic windows to gables to try to match the other dormer windows, in the background are forests and mountains, (7¼ x 9¼), the second shows a garden front of a castle with 'KING' over the entrance between two round towers, someone is raising a royal standard, two soldiers in busbies guard the entrance while a man, presumably the king, walks towards the viewer with his dog, (4¾ x 7), each in a window of a card mount 15¼ x 13, no place, no date, circa
Item Date: 1886
Background
In both drawings the line is assured, the buildings solid, and the colouring pleasingly balanced, though the perspective is a little out.
small closed tear in foot of first drawing without loss
Stock No. 56057