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Original artwork for Goblin Market: "Laura would call the little ones".

RACKHAM, Arthur (illus.); ROSSETTI, Christina.

  • Published: 1933
1933. Original artwork for Rossetti's poem Published within Rackham's edition of Christina Rossetti's Goblin Market in 1933. This fine watercolour appears opposite page 44 and is one of the four colour plates. Rackham's work for Harrap in the 1930s saw a return to the artist's early style. Fred Gettings in an essay on "Rackham's Best Book Illustrations" states that Goblin Market "might easily have become an exercise in grotesqueries" but that Rackham's work "has been infused with a delicacy of feeling and humour which touches the poem's own qualities very well, but here we have all the elements of early Rackham..." Original drawing (250 x 160 mm) on artist's board (259 x 177 mm with "Smith's Specially Prepared Boards" printed on reverse), fine ink and watercolour, signed ("Arthur Rackham") lower left, mounted, framed, and glazed (framed size 404 x 317 mm). Fine and unfaded. Fred Gettings, Arthur Rackham, 1976, p. 162.

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