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Chez la Fée (At the Fairy's)

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Walford Graham Robertson
1866-1948

Chez la Fée (At the Fairy's)

1915
8 9/16 x 6 11/16 inches (218 x 170 mm)
Black ink over graphite, on paper.
1986.2295

Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.

Notes
Title from a second drawing by this artist of the same subject (see 1986.2294).
One of a series of drawings to illustrate a French edition of Maurice Maeterlinck's The blue bird (i.e. L'Oiseau bleu); completed by Robertson in 1915, but evidently never published. Cf. Letters from Graham Robertson / edited by Kerrison Preston. London : Hamish Hamilton, 1953, p. 30-34.
Classification
Century Drawings