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Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale, R.W.S. (British, 1871-1945) Lancelot and Elaine - \"but to be with you still and see your face, to serve you and to follow you thr\'o the world,\" c. 1909-1911
Estimate: $5,000-$7,000
Sold
$5,000
Live Auction
European Art
Location
Chicago
Size
15 1/4 x 10 3/4 inches.
Description
Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale, R.W.S.

(British, 1871-1945)

Lancelot and Elaine - "but to be with you still and see your face, to serve you and to follow you thr'o the world," c. 1909-1911

watercolor and bodycolor on paper laid to board

initialed EF-B (lower right); titled and inscribed (on a label attached to the reverse)

15 1/4 x 10 3/4 inches.

This lot is located in Chicago.

Condition
Framed: 23 1/4 x 18 1/2 inches.Minor deposits of surface dirt and dust; artwork is installed within frame liner in such a way that makes the verso not visible; one small pigment loss in lower right corner; a small liquid stain in the blue robe of Lancelot, only visible in raking light; otherwise appears in overall good and stable condition, with bright colors intact. Under UV light, no apparent inpainting is visible. Additional images available upon request.
Signature
initialed EF-B (lower right); titled and inscribed (on a label attached to the reverse)
Provenance
Provenance:The Leicester Galleries, London, by 1911Sold: Sotheby's, London, November 21, 2006, Lot 42Exhibited:London, Leicester Galleries, Autumn 1911Literature:Alfred Tennyson, Idylls of the King, London, 1911, illus.Andrew Lang (ed.), Tales from King Arthur, Ware, England, 2003, p. 213, illus.Barbara Tepa Lupack and Alan Lupack, Illustrating Camelot, Cambridge, 2008, p. 132Donald L. Hoffman and Debra N. Mancoff, “Brickdale’s ‘Idylls’ Re-Viewed,” Arthuriana, vol. 26, no. 2, 2016, p. 34In 1909, Ernest Brown, of the Leicester Galleries, commissioned a watercolor series of 28 subject from Alfred Tennyson's Idylls of the King, which Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale painted over two years. These works constituted the bulk of her 1911 autumn show at Brown's Leicester Gallery in London. The same year, the publishing company Hodder & Stoughton published Idylls of the King-a deluxe edition of the first four idylls, Enid, Vivien, Elaine, and Guinevere-that reproduced 21 of the Tennyson watercolors from the exhibition, including the present example.