Original illustration: Old King Cole from MOTHER GOOSE

by W. W Denslow

$5,000 · Offered by Type Punch Matrix

n.p. n.p, circa 1910 . Large and dynamic finished pen-and-ink drawing, later published after its rediscovery in the book YE OLD TIME NURSERY RHYMES BY MOTHER GOOSE. Fine. Item #31906 Nearly a quarter century 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. In their biography of him, Greene and Hearn

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