Goat on a boat (original cover art for the publication)

A$500 · Offered by Douglas Stewart Fine Books

Colour pencil and watercolour on artist s card, 310 x 295 mm, signed lower right, accompanied by a signed letter and related ephemera. The original cover illustration for the children s book Goat on a boat (Sydney : Omnibus, 2019), written by Nick Dent and illustrated by Suzanne Houghton. When a goat arrives on a rocky island, the resident sheep are afraid he will eat all their grass. But this goat has hidden talents… A charming illustration.

• Binding: Hardcover

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