The Fox and the Duck: watercolor, heightened with gum arabic, with pencilled background, on light card; signed “B. Fenning 1834”

by B. Fenning

$400 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller

Signed

Image 4 x 5-1/2 inches, plus margins. Fine. Item #53479 A superbly composed and meticulously executed little drawing of extremely high quality. We have seen an album of very similar drawings of outstanding quality ascribed to Henry Alken incorrectly, in our view and this, signed, drawing may indicate their true creator.

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