Lot 101

JESSIE MARION KING (1875-1949)
'THE DWARF'S DREAM'

Auction: 19 August 2013 at 12:00 BST
£7,750
Description
pen and ink, watercolour and silver paint, signed lower right JESSIE M. KING, bears inscription HIS DREAM/ "HE WOULD BRING HER ACORN CUPS AND DEW/ DRENCHED ANENOMES AND TINY GLOW WORMS/ TO BE STARS IN THE PALE GOLD OF HER HAIR"
Dimensions
27.5cm x 20cm
Footnote
Provenance: Miss Merle Taylor
Sale of the Estate of the late Miss Merle Taylor, Sotheby's, Glasgow, 21 June 1977, lot 159.
Note: The original illustration from 'The Birthday of the Infanta' by Oscar Wilde, from 'A House of Pomegranates', published Methuen & Co.Ltd., London, 1915 (reproduced opposite page 52 in the printed book)

