ARTHUR RACKHAM (1867-1939) "Hush! For the holiest thing that lives is here"
circa 1927, signed lower left, watercolour with pen and ink, 32cm x 24cm
Provenance: acquired direct from the artist in circa 1927 and thence by family descent.
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£3,000 - £5,000
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£4,250 |
Bidding ended. Lot has been sold.
The watercolour drawing is offered along with Algernon Charles Swinburne's 'The Springtide of Life: Poems of Childhood', illustrated by Arthur Rackham (London: William Heinemann, 1918), signed by the illustrator, no. 375 from an edition of 765, with original vellum gilt binding, a photograph depicting the vendor's family before the watercolour, along with a letter from Rackham concerning the current artwork.
The current watercolour is based on the illustration of the same name from Rackham's edition of Swinburne's 'The Springtide of Life'. It was executed especially for Kerrison Preston Esq. (1884-1974), after the book's original publication. Preston was a noted connoisseur and scholar with a particular interest in William Blake and the Pre-Raphaelites.
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