Original illustration: There Was an Old Woman Tossed Up in a Basket from MOTHER GOOSE

by W. W Denslow

$4,000 · Offered by Type Punch Matrix

n.p. n.p, circa 1910 . Large and wonderful finished pen-and-ink drawing that would later be published in the book YE OLD TIME NURSERY RHYMES BY MOTHER GOOSE. Fine. Item #31919 After Denslow's death, a cache of his art was discovered in 1939. Buffalo publishers Baldwin & Strachan used them to issue a pamphlet of Mother Goose rhymes that same year. The art is described in Greene and Hearn's biography of Denslow, saying in

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