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Lot 155
Dulac (Edmund) Molly Pitcher, watercolour, [c. 1938]
Estimate: £1,500 - 2,000
Description
Dulac (Edmund) Molly Pitcher, watercolour and bodycolour, heightened with white, signed in the lower right corner, 340 x 310 mm (13 1/2 x 12 1/4 in), under glass, framed, [circa 1938]
Provenance:
Collection of the late Colin White
Exhibited:
Sheffield City Art Galleries, November 1982- May 1983, item no. 37
Literature:
Reproduced American Weekly, 17th July 1938, cover artwork;
Colin White, Edmund Dulac, 1976, p.162, 175;
Edmund Dulac : illustrator and designer, 1882-1953 : a centenary exhibition, Sheffield: Sheffield City Art Galleries, 1982
⁂ Original watercolour illustration produced for the 1938 series of American Weekly covers, 'Fighting women', published 17th July 1938. Molly Pitcher was a hero of the American Revolution who at the battle of Monmouth, New Jersey, said to have taken the place of her wounded husband at the cannon.
Description
Dulac (Edmund) Molly Pitcher, watercolour and bodycolour, heightened with white, signed in the lower right corner, 340 x 310 mm (13 1/2 x 12 1/4 in), under glass, framed, [circa 1938]
Provenance:
Collection of the late Colin White
Exhibited:
Sheffield City Art Galleries, November 1982- May 1983, item no. 37
Literature:
Reproduced American Weekly, 17th July 1938, cover artwork;
Colin White, Edmund Dulac, 1976, p.162, 175;
Edmund Dulac : illustrator and designer, 1882-1953 : a centenary exhibition, Sheffield: Sheffield City Art Galleries, 1982
⁂ Original watercolour illustration produced for the 1938 series of American Weekly covers, 'Fighting women', published 17th July 1938. Molly Pitcher was a hero of the American Revolution who at the battle of Monmouth, New Jersey, said to have taken the place of her wounded husband at the cannon.
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