Sale 2495 - Illustration Art, December 6, 2018

19 c W.W. DENSLOW. “Higgeldy Piggeldy” [sic]. Illustration published in “Ye Old Time Nursery Rhymes by Mother Goose” (Buffalo: Baldwin & Strachan, 1939) but created circa 1910 for advertising pamphlets. Pen and ink with graphite tracing, on stiff paper. 368x495 mm; 14 1 / 2 x19 1 / 2 inches. Signed “DEN” and with seahorse monogram in lower right image and captioned in pencil in upper margin. Some toning to outer margins. [3,000/4,000] This illustration, and the one in lot 20 below, were re-discovered after Denslow’s death and published in the late 1930s but had first appeared in the teens. The pictures debuted in “Youth Magazine,” a hand-out to patrons of Dodd’s Dairy in Buffalo, New York. See: Greene, Douglas G. and Michael Patrick Hearn, “W. W. Denslow” (Mount Pleasant: Clarke Historical Library, 1976). Both images are unusually large for Denslow’s children’s book illustrations. 20 c W.W. DENSLOW. “There was an Old Woman Tossed up in a Basket.” Illustration published in “Ye Old Time Nursery Rhymes by Mother Goose” (Buffalo: Baldwin & Strachan, 1939) but created circa 1910 for advertising pamphlets. Pen and ink with graphite tracing, on stiff paper. 368x495 mm; 14 1 / 2 x19 1 / 2 inches. Signed “DEN” and with seahorse monogram in lower right image and captioned in pencil in upper margin. Some toning to outer margins. [2,500/3,500] 19 20