14 BRICKDALE, Eleanor Fortescue (illus.); NEALE, John Mason. “Good King Wenceslas”. 1925 original artwork for the famous Carol Published within a collection of carols in 1925 by the firm of Alexander Moring. The printed volume presented 14 carols with 6 double-page colour plates and 5 other colour plates by Brickdale. This fine watercolour was reproduced as one of the double-page plates. Original drawing (235 × 316 mm) on artist’s board (252 × 335 mm with “Smith’s Water Color Boards” printed on reverse), fine ink and watercolour, signed (“E. F. Brickdale”) lower right, mounted, framed, and glazed (framed size 387 × 456 mm). Fine condition: bright and unfaded. £6,750 [154958]
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13 BRICKDALE, Eleanor Fortescue. “An Outcast”. 1912 A fine watercolour depicting the patron saint of brides, charities, and hospitals Original artwork for William Canton’s The Story of Saint Elizabeth of Hungary in 1912, one of eight colour plates published in the book. Saint Elizabeth (1207–31) is remembered for the “Miracle of the Roses”. This watercolour accompanies chapter ten in the book which is entitled “Outcast”. The published book was reviewed by the Times Literary Supplement on 5 December 1912 as having “very expressive and skilful drawings in colour by Miss Eleanor Brickdale”. Eleanor Fortescue Brickdale (1871–1945) is remembered as a painter and designer. “She represents the last phase of Pre-Raphaelitism, her highly detailed and meaningful little pictures are crammed with medievalism and moral sentiment. She was the ideal illustrator of legend and particularly for those expensive coloured gift books of the 1900s where her bright colours and haughty figures were set off to advantage on the ample pages” (Houfe, p. 73). Original drawing (186 × 122 mm) on artist’s board (195 × 133 mm with “O.W. Paper & Arts” printed on reverse), fine ink and watercolour, signed with initials (“EFB”) lower left, mounted, framed, and glazed (framed size 325 × 250 mm). Light toning to extremities; fine and bright. ¶ Simon Houfe, 19th Century British Book Illustrators and Caricaturists , 1998. £2,750 [154973]
12 BLAKE, Quentin. Prince Charming and Dandini on the balcony. 2020 Original DRAWING for a television production of Cinderella An original Quentin Blake drawing for Cinderella: a Comic Relief Pantomime for Christmas , the only pantomime mounted by Comic Relief. Broadcast on BBC Television on 24 December 2020, it featured 12 performers, all filmed at home. Throughout the show 16 illustrations by Quentin Blake, specially drawn for the broadcast, were shown on the screen to help create a unifying style for the performance. This drawing appears less than a minute into the performance and shows Prince Charming and Dandini. The narrative voice-over was spoken by Olivia Colman and was described (in appropriate pantomime rhyming couplets) as: “On the balcony a figure so bold and disarming, / Dashing and handsome, his name is Prince Charming”. Original drawing (410 × 480 mm) on paper (550 × 750 mm), fibre-tip pen and watercolour, signed and dated (“Quentin Blake Christmas 2020”) lower right, mounted, framed, and glazed. A bright and vibrant drawing. £3,750 [150856]
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