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ANTIQUE #SA1120299

The Sourcerer By Ernest Henri Griset (1844-1907). Victorian Watercolour On Card

£120    $149    €144
Pencil, pen and ink and watercolour on card. There are a couple of minor abrasions and a faint vertical crease in the centre below a small tear in the top margin. Signed E. Griset in pen and Indian ink, (lower left).
 
A Character seated at a desk reads a book while an owl looks on from the corner of the table. Ghostly figures including a bat hover in the background.
 
This item is to be sold as seen without a mount or frame and will be delivered in a clear polyester archival polyester sleeve.
 
Image: 16.5 x 18.3 cm.
 
Card: 18.4 x 20.1 cm.
 
Griset was a French-born painter and illustrator noted for the humorous interpretations of his subjects. He specialized especially in animal illustrations many of which were made for children''s books as well as magazines like Punch.
 
Griset was born in France, but his parents moved to England in 1848. He studied for a while under the Belgian artist Louis Gallait before moving back to England, then regularly drew the animals at the London Zoo as a basis for his paintings and illustrations. He became known particularly for his humorous and satirical designs, which were best displayed in his two Christmas books, Griset’s Grotesques, or Jokes Drawn on Wood (1867), which was accompanied by the comic verses of Tom Hood.
 
Many examples of Griset''s work are now in the collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum. Less well known are the prehistoric hunting scenes specially commissioned by Sir John Lubbock, some of which are in Bromley Museum, and which were a ground-breaking and sympathetic treatment of the subject. Some of his comic work appeared in Punch, where he was briefly on the staff between 1867-9, as well as in its competitor, Fun. He left Punch at the age of twenty four and worked on illustrating Aesop’s Fables (1869). Of this work a reviewer noted that ''nothing so quaint as these illustrations has appeared since the days of Grandville…Griset possesses the faculty of investing his animals with human expression...
Antique #SA1120299, shown on this page, originates from the victorian Era. For historical context, the timeline below highlights the period when it was made:
   The Victorian Era   
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