Research Catalog

Aesop's fables drawings and tracings

Description

118 drawings on 111 sheets : pencil, 2 with water color; 16 x 11 cm. or smaller, in mounts 21 x 14 cm.

Subject

Genre/Form

Drawings.

Note

Binder's title.
Reproduced as wood engravings in: Aesop's fables : a new version, chiefly from original sources / by Thomas James ; with more than one hundred illustrations designed by John Tenniel. London : John Murray, 1848.
Comprise original drawings for 99 of the 106 ill. in the book as published, most with legends in the artist's hand; variant versions of 10 of these; 2 versions of the drawing for the added illustrated t.p. (variants of the published version); and 7 sketches on the versos of drawings.
On white, off-white and light blue paper.
Mounted in passepartout mounts and bound in as extra illustrations to a copy of the book; bound in 2 v. and preserved in a green morocco pull-off case. Book is cataloged separately as Spencer Coll. Eng. 1848 93-388a.

Call Number

Spencer Coll. Eng. 1848 93-388

OCLC

NYPG93-F308

Author

Tenniel, John, Sir, 1820-1914, illustrator.

Title

Aesop's fables [graphic] : drawings and tracings / by John Tenniel.

Imprint

[1848?]

Research Call Number

Spencer Coll. Eng. 1848 93-388