Arthur Rackham: His Life and Work/Appendix B
APPENDIX B
Drawings and Paintings in Collections
SOME DRAWINGS AND PAINTINGS BY ARTHUR RACKHAM IN PUBLIC AND SEMI-PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
In water-colour, or pen-and-ink and water-colour, unless otherwise stated. All small-scale, except the self-portrait
LONDON
Art-Workers’ Guild. Queen Square
Self-portrait, 1924. Oils.
Tate Gallery, Millbank
‘The Dance in Cupid’s Alley.’ 1904. Based on a poem by Austin Dobson: ‘O, Love’s but a dance’, etc.
Victoria and Albert Museum
‘The Widow Whitgift and her Sons.’ From Puck of Pook’s Hill. 1906.
‘To hear the sea-maid’s music.’ From A Midsummer-Night’s Dream, II, i. 1908.
Headpiece to The Ring of the Nibelungs, Vol. I, The Rhinegold – The Valkyrie. 1910.
‘South Downs at Amberley.’ 1926.
‘Isaak Walton reclining against a Fence.’ From The Compleat Angler. 1931.
BEVERLEY, YORKSHIRE
Art Gallery
Two drawings for Gulliver’s Travels.
BRADFORD
Art Gallery
‘The Magic Carpet.’ Acquired 1907.
CAMBRIDGE
Fitzwilliam Museum
‘Blythburgh, Suffolk.’ Pencil and water-colour.
‘The Trees and the Axe.’ From Aesop’s Fables, 1912.
HARROGATE
Art Gallery
‘Regent’s Park.’ 1928.
NOTTINGHAM
Museum and Art Gallery
‘It amused the birds to see him lifting the crusts to his mouth with hands.’ For Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens.
PRESTON
Harris Museum and Art Gallery
‘Jewels from the Deep.’ 1909.
‘Bigbury Bay, Devon.’ 1915.
SHREWSBURY SCHOOL
Moser Collection
FOREIGN COLLECTIONS
BARCELONA
Municipal Gallery
‘Imps of the Smoke.’ Acquired 1911.
CAMBRIDGE, MASS.
Harvard University Library
The Houghton Library has drawings for Little Brother and Little Sister, English Fairy Tales, and Aesop’s Fables, also an unidentified drawing ‘Grotesque Sprites’.
MELBOURNE
National Gallery
‘Windfalls.’ 1904.
NEW YORK
Butler Library, Columbia University
Sarah Briggs Latimore’s comprehensive collection of books and drawings was acquired by Mr and Mrs Alfred C. Berol for presentation to Columbia University, and a selection was exhibited there, December 1956–March 1957. The drawings, about sixty in number, in pencil, pen-and-ink, water-colour, etc., include examples of illustrations for Gulliver’s Travels, Rip Van Winkle, Mother Goose, Aesop’s Fables, Comus, Undine, and A Legend of Sleepy Hollow, and a series for The Lonesomest Doll. This was followed by an even more important addition in 1958 of some three hundred original drawings and sketches, together with about thirty volumes of the artist’s sketchbooks in which his major illustrated books were planned. Another Rackham Collection, brought together by Grace Clark Haskell, is in the Free Library of Philadelphia.
Public Library
The Spencer Collection has twenty-one original drawings in water-colour for seventeen books published between 1906 and 1921, from Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens to A Dish of Apples. The Spencer Collection also possesses Rackham’s illustrations and decorations for the MS of A Midsummer-Night’s Dream written out by Graily Hewitt, comprising thirteen full-page water-colour drawings, three full-page borders in colour, vignettes and head and tail-pieces. The illustrations differ from those in the book published in 1908.
PARIS
Musée National d’Art Moderne (Edmund Davis Collection). ‘Jack Sprat and his Wife.’ 1912. Presented 1915.
VIENNA