Nice weather! : an original pencil drawing
Circa: 1883
Price: $1,500
CRANE, Walter (1845-1915) # 1955 Pencil on thick paper, 175 x 137 mm. Signed lower left with Walter Crane's monogram and the date Nov: 1883. Very fine. A charming illustration - apparently unique and unpublished - of an anthropomorphised duck and frog meeting in the rain, with the frog quipping: Nice weather!. Provenance: Sotheby's, Fantasy, illustrated Books and related drawings, London : 31 October 1997, lot 345.