ORIGINAL WATERCOLOURS DONE FOR HIS CHILDREN 'PHIZ' (Hablot Knight Browne, 1815-1882, Artist & Illustrator of Dickens's Novels)

Delightful Set of 12 Watercolours on the finest cotton Gauze, Unsigned, made for his Children, to illustrate 'A Frog he would a-wooing go', his meeting a Rat on the way and their welcome by Mrs Mouse at Mousey Hall, who offers to sing, the dispersal of the party by a Cat and two Kittens, and Mr Frog's sad end on the way home, each approximately 3¼" x 4½" with a line of verse above and below, in margins 5¾" x 5¾" plus a fringe of ¾ of an inch all round, loose between early numbered sheets of paper with a modern card noting that they are from among his family items, no place, no date, circa a few occasional brown spots nearly all in blank margin, two touching a line of verse which is still perfectly legible, the third drawing is very slightly smudged



Item Date:  1860

Stock No:  56421      £5750

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