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NICHOLAS R. RILEY.
“I stood on the platform of the last car to wave to her, and there she was sitting up as
straight as I ever saw her.”Watercolor on board. 591x387 mm; 23
1
/
4
x15
1
/
4
inches. Signed
lower left. Illustration for the story “A Man’s Mother” by Gladys Hasty Carroll in The
Saturday Evening Post, October 19, 1940,Vol. 213, Number 16, page 9.
[500/750]
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WILLIAM HEATH ROBINSON.
“Peacock Pie.”Blue and black ink on paper.Original title-page design for the book byWalter
de la Mare, Constable and Company Ltd., London, 1913. 381x279 mm; 15x11 inches, sheet,
with pencil rules around main design and printing notes along lower and side margins, pin
holes at corners and even toning to paper where exposed by window matte.
[400/600]
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FREDERICK
RICHARDSON.
“TheThree Pigs.”Watercolor, ink and pencil
on paper. 340x260 mm; 13
1
/
4
x10
1
/
4
inches,
matte size. Tape residue on right corners,
short crease lower left corner. Unsigned,
penciled title caption in right margin.
[600/900]
Possibly an unused illustration for Old Old
Tales Retold, Chicago: P. F.Volland Co., 1923.
Richardson was a cartoonist with the Chicago
Daily News and taught at the Chicago Art
Institute. His most famous books were Queen
Zixi of Ix (1905) by L. Frank Baum, Frank
Stockton’s The Queen’s Museum (1906) and
The Volland Mother Goose (1915).
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