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- Sale 1297
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Sale 1297
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Estimate$5,000 – $7,000
Provenance:
The Leicester Galleries, London, by 1911
Sold: Sotheby's, London, November 21, 2006, Lot 42
Exhibited:
London, Leicester Galleries, Autumn 1911
Literature:
Alfred Tennyson, Idylls of the King, London, 1911, illus.
Andrew Lang (ed.), Tales from King Arthur, Ware, England, 2003, p. 213, illus.
Barbara Tepa Lupack and Alan Lupack, Illustrating Camelot, Cambridge, 2008, p. 132
Donald L. Hoffman and Debra N. Mancoff, “Brickdale’s ‘Idylls’ Re-Viewed,” Arthuriana, vol. 26, no. 2, 2016, p. 34
In 1909, Ernest Brown, of the Leicester Galleries, commissioned a watercolor series of 28 subject from Alfred Tennyson's Idylls of the King, which Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale painted over two years. These works constituted the bulk of her 1911 autumn show at Brown's Leicester Gallery in London. The same year, the publishing company Hodder & Stoughton published Idylls of the King-a deluxe edition of the first four idylls, Enid, Vivien, Elaine, and Guinevere-that reproduced 21 of the Tennyson watercolors from the exhibition, including the present example.
Framed: 23 1/4 x 18 1/2 inches.
Minor deposits of surface dirt and dust; artwork is installed within frame liner in such a way that makes the verso not visible; one small pigment loss in lower right corner; a small liquid stain in the blue robe of Lancelot, only visible in raking light; otherwise appears in overall good and stable condition, with bright colors intact. Under UV light, no apparent inpainting is visible. Additional images available upon request.
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Madalina Lazen
VP Head of Department, Old Masters & 19th Century European Art
