The Fantasy World of Arthur Rackham: Rare Original Illustrations from the Collection of Shirley Carter Burden

The Fantasy World of Arthur Rackham: Rare Original Illustrations from the Collection of Shirley Carter Burden

View full screen - View 1 of Lot 30. Arthur Rackham | Original illustration for The Vicar of Wakefield (I caught the dear forlorn wretch in my arms), 1929.

Arthur Rackham | Original illustration for The Vicar of Wakefield (I caught the dear forlorn wretch in my arms), 1929

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Arthur Rackham

“I caught the dear forlorn wretch in my arms”


235 x 184mm. (9¼ x 7¼ inches), ink and watercolour drawing on paper, signed and dated ’29 lower left


Reproduced as a colour plate in The Vicar of Wakefield, 1929, plate 9


PROVENANCE

Exhibited Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 1974