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Lot Essay
This sensitive and beautiful drawing, though unpublished, relates to Rackham's illustration project for John Ruskin’s King of the Golden River. The children’s story was re-published in 1932 and illustrated by Rackham, having first been published in 1851 with images by the illustrator and fairy painter Richard Doyle (1824-1883).
This text was originally written in 1841 as a personal gift for Effie Gray (1828-1897), whom Ruskin later married. It is a fairy tale illustrating the triumph of love, kindness, and goodness over evil. The book connected to the zeitgeist of the time, and instantly became an early Victorian classic.
The drawing was purchased from the Leicester Galleries by Scribner & Sons, a New York publisher who hoped to use Rackham's work to illustrate forthcoming publications.
This text was originally written in 1841 as a personal gift for Effie Gray (1828-1897), whom Ruskin later married. It is a fairy tale illustrating the triumph of love, kindness, and goodness over evil. The book connected to the zeitgeist of the time, and instantly became an early Victorian classic.
The drawing was purchased from the Leicester Galleries by Scribner & Sons, a New York publisher who hoped to use Rackham's work to illustrate forthcoming publications.