[Manuscript Drawing Book:] 'The Garlon'.

Hallward (Faith [M.])

[Manuscript Drawing Book:] 'The Garlon'.

Description: drawings throughout in pencil or ink, mostly the former and predominantly with watercolour, some laid down, some text in pencil or ink, including verse from Tennyson and some original compositions, handling marks throughout and some nicks to margins, 4to, original wrappers with colour illustration laid down to front, textblock loose within with a few leaves loose, split most of the way up the spine and frayed, handling and soiling, fair

Publication Details: 1898

Notes: Faith Hallward was the eldest daughter of Reginald Hallward and Adelaide Bloxham - both of them artists, he particularly notable in the field of stained-glass design and also a poet. In this book, executed at the age of eleven, she shows herself to have inherited a measure of their talent, with a wit and imagination characteristic of a young mind. The illustrations include a depiction of the Hammersmith Boat Race and a victim of the Paris Bazaar Fire (in 1897), as well as drawings of animals and her siblings - one of whom, her sister Patience (called 'Patty' here), continued in their parents' ...more

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Price: £375

Subject: Art & Architecture

Published Date: 1898

Stock Number: 61180

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