“Swift, Swift the Great Twin Brethren Came Spurring from the East”

by Norman Ault

$850 · Offered by Honey & Wax Booksellers

England: 1911. Watercolor and graphite on board, image measuring 12 x 9 inches, board 13.75 x 9.75 inches. Tipped to mat, 16 x 12 inches. Original watercolor by Norman Ault for his 1911 illustrated edition of Thomas Babington Macaulay’s The Lays of Ancient Rome, first published in 1842. A scholar of poetry as well as an illustrator, Ault brought a deep understanding to Macaulay’s verse history, retellings of heroic episodes of classical

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