MAURICE GREIFFENHAGEN (1862-1931)
'IVANHOE', EIGHT ORIGINAL ILLUSTRATIONS, 1906
£2,142
Auction: Day One | Lots 1 to 252 | Wednesday 16th April from 10am
Description
watercolour and bodycolour on board, with graphite annotations, each signed and dated MAURICE GREIFFENHAGEN/ 1906 entitled
Your reference must hold on this path till you come to a sunken cross. (frontispiece)
"Second to None" said the Pilgrim, who stood near enough to hear.
Fair and true he hit the Norman on the visor.
Locksley stept to the appointed station, and shot his arrow.
"Seest thou, Isaac," said Front-de-Boeuf, "the range of iron bars above that glowing charcoal?"
"Turn, false-hearted Templar! let go her whom thou art unworthy to touch !"
"Mount thee behind me on my steed - on Zamor, the gallant horse that never failed his rider."
To the surprise of the Lady of Ivanhoe, her fair visitant kneeled on one knee. (8)
Dimensions
each approx. 47cm x 32cm (board size 54cm x 36.5cm)
Footnote
Maurice Greiffenhagen, the British painter and Royal Academician illustrated books and designed posters as well as painting idyllic landscapes. Exhibiting at the Royal Academy of Arts from 1884, he was made an Associate Member in 1916 and a Royal Academician in 1922. From 1906 until 1926, he taught at the Glasgow School of Art.
Greiffenhagen originally produced twelve illustrations for Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott, published by T.C. & E.C. Jack in 1908, with a preface by Mrs Maxwell Scott of Abbotsford. These much-loved illustrations have been used in many editions of Ivanhoe and are still in print.