Keith Vaughan
Illustration for "The Spirit of Jem"
pen and black ink
11.4 x 19.6 cm
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Prepared for the book by P.H. Newby (1947) but not used. Compare illustration on page 121 of the book, published by John Lehmann, 1947. In 1985 the Museum of the...
Prepared for the book by P.H. Newby (1947) but not used. Compare illustration on page 121 of the book, published by John Lehmann, 1947. In 1985 the Museum of the University of Aberystwyth purchased the complete set of 41 original pen and ink illustrations for P.H.Newby's The Spirit of Jem (1947) together with 69 photographs and 363 items of printed ephemera, proofs, magazine advertisements, book jackets etc. The latter formed Vaughan's personal archive of his output as an illustrator and graphic designer. For another illustration for “The Spirit of Jem” see also cat.no.26.
Provenance
Redfern Gallery, LondonPeter Cotterill, (June, 1996)
John Constable (August 2008)