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For the First Time They Met with No Other Eyes to Watch Them

Byam Shaw (1872-1919)

SIGNED AND DATED 1902
INSCRIBED '... YOUR PARDON, LADY MIRIAM" SAID MARCUS BOWING GRAVELY ... BREAKING IN THUS ON YOUR PRIVACY, BUT TIME PRESSES' ON REVERSE
INSCRIBED 'PEARL MAIDEN' AND 'GRAPHIC AND WITH PUBLICATION DETAILS, AND DATED 'AUG 9/02' ON REVERSE IN ANOTHER HAND
PEN AND INK
10 1/4 X 10 3/4 INCHES
PROVENANCE: SIR HUGH WALPOLE;
'FIFTH PORTION OF THE FAMOUS LIBRARY OF THE LATE SIR
HUGH WALPOLE, CBE', CHRISTIE'S, 7 MAY 1946, LOT 297
ILLUSTRATED: THE GRAPHIC, 9 AUGUST 1902, PAGE 173, 'PEARL MAIDEN' BY
H RIDER HAGGARD; H RIDER HAGGARD, PEARL-MAIDEN. A TALE
OF JERUSALEM, NEW YORK: LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO, 1903,
FACING PAGE 117
EXHIBITED: 'THE ILLUSTRATORS. THE BRITISH ART OF ILLUSTRATION
1800-2014', NOVEMBER 2014 - JANUARY 2015, NO 143


Price
£1,750

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