Swann Galleries - Illustration Art - Sale 2403 - January 28, 2016

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140 ● JANE BRESKIN ZALBEN.
“Tulgey Woods” * “Humpty Walking Off
into the Sunset.” Together, the frontispiece
and colophon page illustrations for “Lewis
Carroll’s Jabberwocky . . . with Annotations
by Humpty Dumpty,” illustrated by Zalben,
New York and London: Frederick Warne,
1977.Tulgey Woods is watercolor on parch-
ment. 203x216 mm; 8x8 1/2 inches, sight size.
Signed in pencil, lower left.Humpty is water-
color on paper, 127x89 mm; 5x31/2 inches,
sight size, printed text description, both pieces
cut and collage mounted to paper, signed in
pencil, lower right. Both archivally matted
and framed. [1,500/2,500]
Two images from Zalben’s popular “Jabberwocky”
book. Both illustrations were chosen to be exhib-
ited in shows at Justin G. Schiller, Ltd., the
Morgan Library, and the Metropolitan Museum
of Art.They are being offered for the first time in
celebration of the 150th anniversary of Lewis
Carroll’s classic,Alice’s Adventures inWonderland.