Original artwork for Old-Time Stories: "It Was Snowing Horribly".

ROBINSON, W. Heath (illus.); PERRAULT, Charles.

Published by 1921

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Published within Heath Robinson's edition of Charles Perrault's Old-Time Stories (translated from the French by A. E. Johnson) in 1921. This fine drawing is one of the artist's black and white illustrations to accompany "Beauty and the Beast" (added by Johnson to supplement Perrault's tales) and appears on page 119. A contemporary review of Old-Time Stories in the Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News noted that the volume was "illustrated by that graceful, imaginative, versatile artist, W. Heath Robinson. The whimsical turn which Perrault ever and anon gives to his language more than finds its echo in these drawings. Mr Robinson's illustrations are models of mingled delicacy, charm, and romance, so that on the whole this is the best illustrated book of fairy tales we remember having seen for years past." A review in the Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science and Art simply noted that "Heath Robinson's illustrations have the true fairy tale spirit". Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News, 5 November 1921, p. 346; Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science and Art, 12 December 1921, p. x. Original drawing (178 x 210 mm) on artist's board (228 x 283 mm with "Roberson's Fashion Boards" printed label on reverse), pen and ink drawing, signed with initials ("W.H.R." lower right), titled below mount ("He Lost His Way" and "Beauty and the Beast"), mounted, framed, and glazed (framed size: 266 x 353 mm). Pin holes below mount, minor gouache corrections to right edge, some light soiling: a fine and unfaded drawing. Seller Inventory # 164965

Bibliographic Details

Title: Original artwork for Old-Time Stories: "It ...
Publisher: 1921
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