The Sudden Storm from Rip Van Winkle Original artwork

by Arthur Rackham, Washington Irving, artist

$17,500 · Offered by Whitmore Rare Books

Signed

1904. Original watercolor and pen and ink drawing on paper, mounted onto card drawing measures approximately 270 x 181 mm . Signed and dated by Arthur Rackham in 1904 lower right . Verso of card with: Received Jan 30 wtd ? Feb 13 and 5086 - unintelligible Heinemann. Mounted on card.From Rip Van Winkle, printed tissue guard with: Even to this day they never hear a thunderstorm about the Catskill but they say Hendrik Hudson and his crew are at

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