JESSIE MARION KING (1875-1949)
KNIGHT AT PRAYER, CIRCA 1903
£3,276
Auction: Day Two | Lots 253 to 490 | Thursday 17th April from 10am
Description
pen and ink on vellum, signed lower left JMK, framed
Dimensions
15.5cm x 10.5cm (frame size 43.5cm x 33.5cm)
Provenance
Provenance: Jessie Marion King and Ernest Archibald Taylor
By descent to their daughter Merle Taylor
Estate of Merle Taylor
Footnote
This exquisite drawing may be an unpublished illustration for one of Jessie Kings earliest books, illustrations for The High History of the Holy Graal, published by J.M Dent in 1903 and one of her finest achievements. Colin White King's biographer states that "her early drawings made up of lines and dots so fine that only a sharp-eyed child or an adult equipped with a good magnifying glass could resolve them, are testimony to the acuteness of her vision and the steadiness of her hand. Her preference for drawing in pen and ink on vellum was a mark of her confidence. A coated and burnished vellum surface enhances the richness of every stroke of the pen, but the medium is unforgiving and does not allow for mistakes."