Lot 505: Whistler (Reginald John "Rex', 1905-44). An

Whistler (Reginald John "Rex', 1905-44). An original but unsigned pen and ink and monochrome watercolour, c. 1930, showing two ladies walking over a stone bridge, a tree and mountains in the background, a young boy fishing in the river beneath the bridge acknowledging the ladies as they pass, the name Edith Olivier written by Whistler into the design beneath the bridges arch, the whole drawn onto the front free endpaper verso of "The Hamwood Papers of the Ladies of Llangollen and Caroline Hamilton, edited by Mrs G. H. Bell (John Travers), 1st ed., 1930, b&w plates, additional unsigned Edith Olivier monogram by Whistler to title, executed in black ink with green watercolour for the leafy decoration, scattered pencil underscoring and a few notes at end of index, printed map endpapers (rear endpapers a little stained), rubbed, spine faded and slightly frayed, 8vo, together with a partly hand-coloured printed postcard for 'Angelina's Trousseau', a play by Edith Olivier, Wilton Rectory, Salisbury, postally unused, Rex Whistler, though some thirty-three years younger than Edith Olivier, struck up a lifelong and close friendship with her after they first met in 1925. They were to collaborate for Whistler's mural at the Tate, "The Expedition in Pursuit of Rare Meats'. (1)
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