Antique prints and engravings - Designs, Costumes and Landscapes

Antique prints and engravings - Designs, Costumes and Landscapes

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Lot 18076: Louis Wain - Rare plate of Babes in the Wood 1905.

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Start price: £40

Estimated price: £80 - £160

Buyer's Premium:

This colour plate is from the rare publication Frolics in Fairyland by Grace Floyd, illustrated by Louis Wain. Published by Raphael Tuck & Sons, Co. Ltd, New York / London / Paris, 1905.

Rare Wain production in which characters from classic fairy tales are re-imagined as his characteristically eccentric and expressive cats. Wain was once regarded as the most famous cat artist on earth.

Each print with Wain’s unique cats managing to appear simultaneously charming and bizarre.

Size: Mount 11.4in x 14.4in (29cm x 36.5cm) Print 8.3in x 12in (21cm x 30 cm)


Condition report:

Excellent condition - please review the images carefully