Lot 324: Three Peter Todd Mitchell sketch books, one including various pencil and ink sketches as well as

designs for costumes for 'Francesca da Rimini' in bodycolour; another including pencil and bodycolour sketches of women in Tunesian dress inscribed 'Kairouan' - probably late 1950s. designs for costumes for 'Francesca da Rimini' in bodycolour; another including pencil and bodycolour sketches of women in Tunesian dress inscribed 'Kairouan' - probably late 1950s See Illustrations (3) NOTES Francesca da Rimini was a 13th century Italian beauty, whose husband, the hunchbacked Lord Rimini, killed her and her lover, the Lord's brother, with whom Francesca had an affair. The story is immortalised in Dante's Divine Comedy and is the subject of many literary and artistic works and Tchaikovsky's symphonic poem Peter Todd Mitchell lived in Altea in Spain from 1955-57 and frequently visited North Africa.