At That Moment the Glow-Worms Turned On Their Lights and Shone Brightly On Dinah and the Cats. Orlando's Whiskers Suddenly Quivered as He Sent a Wireless Message to Venus, For Help.

Kathleen Hale (1898-2000)

Price

£1,750

Medium

Pen ink and watercolour with pencil and bodycolour

Dimensions

10 x 6 inches

Illustrated

Preliminary Drawings For Kathleen Hale, Orlando the Marmalade Cat Goes To the Moon, London: John Murray, 1968, Pages 30 and 29

Exhibited

'Louis Wain and the Summer Cat Show', August 2010, No 32;
'The Illustrators, The British Art of Illustration 1870-2010'

Mounted

Front: two images measuring 4 3/4 x 6 inches and 3 1/4 x 6 inches
Reverse:
We Must be Ready to Jump Out Before we Reach the Sea', said Orlando
Inscribed 'See cover of Chinese Painting' below mount
Monochrome watercolour with pen ink and bodycolour
7 x 6 inches
Preliminary drawing for Kathleen Hale, Orlando the Marmelade Cat Goes to the Moon, London: John Murray, Page 29