Fables and Fairytales
VAN SANDWYK, Charles
Fables and Fairytales
[British Columbia, 2024]
Original pen and watercolour illustration; framed and glazed (frame measures 24.5 x 29.5 x 3cm approx, image measures 11.5 x 18cm approx); the watercolour showing a sleeping dragon with red and blue spines, tightly curled around a flowering tree; a crow holding a piece of cheese in its beak watching warily from the branches above, alongside a frog prince holding a golden ball; with a castle in the distance; all held in a grey card mount with gilt and hand-drawn border; in turn within a gilt frame custom-made especially for the illustrator, adorned in 18 carat gold and carved with vines and flowers; fine, a wonderful image.
Signed by the illustrator to the lower left hand corner. The crow alludes to Aesop’s fable of the fox and the crow; the frog to ‘The Frog Prince’ by the Brothers Grimm.
VAN SANDWYK, Charles
Fables and Fairytales
[British Columbia, 2024]
Original pen and watercolour illustration; framed and glazed (frame measures 24.5 x 29.5 x 3cm approx, image measures 11.5 x 18cm approx); the watercolour showing a sleeping dragon with red and blue spines, tightly curled around a flowering tree; a crow holding a piece of cheese in its beak watching warily from the branches above, alongside a frog prince holding a golden ball; with a castle in the distance; all held in a grey card mount with gilt and hand-drawn border; in turn within a gilt frame custom-made especially for the illustrator, adorned in 18 carat gold and carved with vines and flowers; fine, a wonderful image.
Signed by the illustrator to the lower left hand corner. The crow alludes to Aesop’s fable of the fox and the crow; the frog to ‘The Frog Prince’ by the Brothers Grimm.
VAN SANDWYK, Charles
Fables and Fairytales
[British Columbia, 2024]
Original pen and watercolour illustration; framed and glazed (frame measures 24.5 x 29.5 x 3cm approx, image measures 11.5 x 18cm approx); the watercolour showing a sleeping dragon with red and blue spines, tightly curled around a flowering tree; a crow holding a piece of cheese in its beak watching warily from the branches above, alongside a frog prince holding a golden ball; with a castle in the distance; all held in a grey card mount with gilt and hand-drawn border; in turn within a gilt frame custom-made especially for the illustrator, adorned in 18 carat gold and carved with vines and flowers; fine, a wonderful image.
Signed by the illustrator to the lower left hand corner. The crow alludes to Aesop’s fable of the fox and the crow; the frog to ‘The Frog Prince’ by the Brothers Grimm.