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ORIGINAL WATERCOLOURS DONE FOR HIS CHILDREN
'PHIZ'
(Hablot Knight Browne, 1815-1882, Artist & Illustrator of Dickens's Novels)
Delightful Set of 12 Watercolours on the finest cotton Gauze, Unsigned, made for his Children,
to illustrate 'A Frog he would a-wooing go', his meeting a Rat on the way and their welcome by Mrs Mouse at Mousey Hall, who offers to sing, the dispersal of the party by a Cat and two Kittens, and Mr Frog's sad end on the way home, each approximately 3¼ x 4½ with a line of verse above and below, in margins 5¾ x 5¾ plus a fringe of ¾ of an inch all round, loose between early numbered sheets of paper with a modern card noting that they are from among his family items, no place, no date, circa
Item Date: 1860
£5,750
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a few occasional brown spots nearly all in blank margin, two touching a line of verse which is still perfectly legible, the third drawing is very slightly smudged
Stock No. 56421
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