HOWARD CHANDLER CHRISTY (American 1873 - 1952) . Basil the Blacksmith, 1905 . Graphite and colored pencil on board . 31...

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HOWARD CHANDLER CHRISTY (American 1873 - 1952)
Basil the Blacksmith, 1905
Graphite and colored pencil on board
31 x 19-1/2in.
Signed lower right
In 1905 the publisher Bobbs-Merrill produced an illustrated edition of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's immensely popular, long poem Evangeline, for which Howard Chandler Christy produced thirty-two original paintings and drawings. The present lot is reproduced on page 45, facing the lines it illustrates:...Then up rose from his seat by the fireside Basil the blacksmith,/Knocked from his pipe the ashes, and slowly extending his right hand... The inscription on the verso of the original drawing, "Evangeline/opp 44," is the printer's guide to its placement in the book.
Evangaline by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Bobbs-Merrill, 1905, original book illustration
Provenance:

Acquired by the present owner from James Graham and Sons, New York, in the early 1960s

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