Mouse reading by Candlelight
VAN SANDWYK, Charles
Mouse reading by Candlelight
Vancouver: n.d. [2012]
Original handcoloured etching (page measures 14 x 25cm, image 5 x 17cm, in mount 23 x 30.5cm); showing a portly brown and white mouse reading a book, sitting atop a further two tomes, and reading by the light of a candle; colour added in watercolour paint, and further embellished with gold detailing to the corners of red book, as well as the candle; cream mount bordered in red, blue and gold; fine.
Artist’s proof, signed by the illustrator in pencil with ‘A.P.’ to the lower left hand corner. The image later appeared in a poetry collection entitled I Believe (2012).
VAN SANDWYK, Charles
Mouse reading by Candlelight
Vancouver: n.d. [2012]
Original handcoloured etching (page measures 14 x 25cm, image 5 x 17cm, in mount 23 x 30.5cm); showing a portly brown and white mouse reading a book, sitting atop a further two tomes, and reading by the light of a candle; colour added in watercolour paint, and further embellished with gold detailing to the corners of red book, as well as the candle; cream mount bordered in red, blue and gold; fine.
Artist’s proof, signed by the illustrator in pencil with ‘A.P.’ to the lower left hand corner. The image later appeared in a poetry collection entitled I Believe (2012).
VAN SANDWYK, Charles
Mouse reading by Candlelight
Vancouver: n.d. [2012]
Original handcoloured etching (page measures 14 x 25cm, image 5 x 17cm, in mount 23 x 30.5cm); showing a portly brown and white mouse reading a book, sitting atop a further two tomes, and reading by the light of a candle; colour added in watercolour paint, and further embellished with gold detailing to the corners of red book, as well as the candle; cream mount bordered in red, blue and gold; fine.
Artist’s proof, signed by the illustrator in pencil with ‘A.P.’ to the lower left hand corner. The image later appeared in a poetry collection entitled I Believe (2012).