But Mordred Laid His Ear Beside the Door and There Half Heard - The Coming of Arthur, by Eleanor Fortescue Brickdale, ROI, RWS 1872-1945

But Mordred Laid His Ear Beside the Door and There Half Heard - The Coming of Arthur

Eleanor Fortescue Brickdale, ROI, RWS 1872-1945

Watercolour with bodycolour on board

Exhibited 1904

44 x 26 cm., 17 1/4 x 10 in.

Signed with a monogram in a cartouche and titled on a label on the reverse

Private Collection, ex-Sotheby's

See below for Catalogue Note from Sotheby's

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Image and caption material added by Jacqueline Banerjee, with thanks to Sotheby's.

Catalogue Note from Sotheby's

he present watercolour may have been made in connection with the twenty-one illustrations that Brickdale made for an edition of Alfred Tennyson's The Idylls of the King published in 1911 and exhibited at the Leicester Galleries. The Coming of Arthur does not appear in the published volume. Among the watercolours that were printed, the following are known Lancelot and Elaine: Farewell, fair Lily (Christie's, London, 17 June 2017, lot 55) and Lancelot and Elaine - Then to her Tower she Climbed and Took the Shield, Thus Kept it and so Lived in Fantasy (sold in these rooms, 30 October 1997, lot 110). Four were recently exhibited in the exhibition A Pre-Raphaelite Journey - The Art of Eleanor Fortesque-Brickdale, at the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool

Bibliography

" Victorian, Pre-Raphaelite & British Impressionist Art/Lot 23." Sotheby's. Web. 24 October 2022.

Created 24 October 2022