Note the Great Variety In the Greens of this Plant, and the Girl May Be Green Also, but the Original Red Riding Hood Was'nt a Puss of Some Sort Whether this Will Ultimately Become a Cat or a Girl, I Really Don't Know this Is a Particular Style of Wall Ornament Known as Arabesque, It Is a Design For a New Style of Man, the Difficulty Being Fitting Him with a Coat, It Being Wrong to Waist Coat

Charles Doyle (1832-1893)

Price

£2,750

Signed

Inscribed with titles and signed indistinctly

Medium

Ink and watercolour

Dimensions

7 x 9 ¾ inches

Exhibited

'The Illustrators: The British Art of Illustration 1831-2023', Chris Beetles Gallery, London, November-December 2023, no 11

Reverse:
at Edzell Castle. a fact
who would not be this happy fellow?

Taken from a sketch book of the 1880s, which is inscribed 'Ida with Mama's love' and dated '11th April 1899' on the inside front cover. Ida was the nickname of Doyle's second youngest daughter, Jane Adelaide Rose.

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