LOT DETAILS

Materials:

watercolor and gouache on paper laid down on canvas

Size Notes:

22 x 26 in.; 55.9 x 66 cm

Markings:

indistinctly signed CRANE in two places (on the stretcher)

Exhibited:

Probably, Liverpool, Walker Art Galleries, Fourteenth Annual Exhibition of Modern Pictures, 1884; London, Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colour, 1884, no. 1081; Possibly, Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, The English Water Colors at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, 1885, no. 123; London, Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colour, 1888; Paris, Exposition Universelle, 1889, no. 203

Literature:

The Artist, London, June 1, 1884, vol. V, no. 54, p. 165; The Magazine of Art, London, September 1884, vol. VII, p. xlvii; "The Easter Art Annual for 1898: The Work of Walter Crane, With Notes by Himself," The Art Journal, London, 1898, p. 26 ; Paul George Konody, The Art of Walter Crane, London, 1902, p. 124; Walter Crane, An Artist's Reminiscences, London, 1907, p. 334; The Builder, London, 1915, p. 278; Isobel Spencer, Walter Crane, London, 1975, p. 130; ;

Provenance:

Phillips, London, March 14, 1983, lot 15, illustrated ; Sotheby's, London, June 5, 1996, lot 133, illustrated