Wild Friends at Home (original cover art)

A$1,650 · Offered by Douglas Stewart Fine Books

Gouache on paper, measures 430 x 310mm, being the original painting illustrating the cover of E. Chivers Davies Wild Friends at Home (London : 1920). In this volume a little boy enters the imaginary worlds of the wild animals whose pictures decorate the walls of his nursery. The fifteen short tales include his adventure with Mrs Kangaroo featured as the cover illustration, of which this is the original design. Leonard Robert Brightwell, an etcher and illustrator of animal subjects, was made a Fellow of the Zoological Society in 1906. Accompanied by a copy of the book, with the painting reproduced on the front cover.

• Binding: Hardcover

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