Some of the flying saucers were as big as houses, but Orlando caught small ones in his net and climbed back with them into the Saucy Catsule
Kathleen Hale (1898-2000)
Price
£3,500
Medium
Watercolour with pen ink and bodycolour and pencil
Dimensions
7 ½ x 6
inches
Illustrated
Preliminary drawings for Kathleen Hale, Orlando the Marmalade Cat Goes to the Moon, London: John Murray, 1968, Pages 14 and 13
Exhibited
'The Illustrators. The British Art of Illustration 1894-2020', Chris Beetles Gallery, November 2020-January 2021, No 107
Reverse: Suddenly he saw hundreds of flying saucers flashing past the windows inscribed '... its castors to the floor' and 'the cats landed' below mount pen and ink 6 3/4 x 6 inches