ROBINSON (CHARLES) - ARTWORK The Mer-baby, WATERCOLOUR, PEN AND INK, signed ('Charles Robinson')...
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ROBINSON (CHARLES) - ARTWORK The Mer-baby, WATERCOLOUR, PEN AND INK, on thick paper, mounted, framed and glazed, image 330 x 192mm., sheet 355 x 225mm., signed ('Charles Robinson') lower right Footnotes: Fine original watercolour by Charles Robinson (1870-1937) of a 'Mer-baby', holding a Japanese doll, swimming with fish, exemplifying his style which 'was highly decorative, flowing and imaginative... partly inspired by the prints of Durer, partly by the Pre-Raphaelites, their space often suggestive of Japanese prints' (Simon Houfe, The Dictionary of 19th Century British Book Illustrators and Caricaturists, 1996). Provenance: Robin de Beaumont (1926-2023); thence by descent. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing
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