296. Attwell (Mabel Lucie).- Six watercolour drawings for the Lucie Attwell Annual, including the endpaper design depicting children watching a boy with barrel organ and monkey, 324mm. by 454mm. ; pictorial title-page, with a girl and her pony, 263mm. by 231mm. ; the ownership page, with a young boy reading, 179mm. by 267mm .; and three large illustrations for “Duck’s Weather” depicting a young girl in the rain with three ducklings; a pixie band and singers lightly captioned in pencil “Happy Birthday”; and “My Robin” depicting a young girl seated with a robin at an outdoor tea table, approximately 315mm. by 265mm., all slightly dust-soiled at edges .
est. £500 – £750
Illustrations by Mabel Lucie Attwell produced in her later life were often finished, or sometimes drawn entirely by the artist’s daughter Peggy. The drawings in this and the following lots are thought to be by the daughter unless otherwise stated.
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