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Lot 200: FORTESCUE-BRICKDALE, ELEANOR.

Est: £8,000 GBP - £12,000 GBP
Sotheby'sLondon, United KingdomDecember 16, 2010

Item Overview

Description

FORTESCUE-BRICKDALE, ELEANOR. "O LOVE! HAS SHE DONE THIS TO THEE? | WHAT SHALL, ALAS! BECOME OF ME?" 375 by 240mm., fine pencil and watercolour drawing, signed with initials 'EFB' lower right, mounted, framed and glazed

Notes

An illustration of the final couplet from John Lyly's lyric usually known as 'Apelles' Song' from his play Alexander and Campaspe. Labels preserved on the reverse of the frame suggest publication in a volume Cards and Kisses which is untraced.

Auction Details

English Literature, History and Children's Books & Illustrations

by
Sotheby's
December 16, 2010, 12:00 PM GMT

34-35 New Bond Street, London, LDN, W1A 2AA, UK