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184 ● JOHN HASSALL. “Jack and Jill.”
Watercolor and ink on thin board. 400x305 mm; 153/4x12 inches. Illustration for Blackie
& Son Ltd., London. Signed lower right. Studio stamp on verso. Nd. [1,500/2,500]
John Hassall was a celebrated British advertising artist and prominent illustrator of children’s
books. He designed the original poster for J. M. Barrie’s play Peter Pan. He opened the New
Art School and School of Poster Design in Kensington where his students included H. M.
Bateman and Harry Rountree. He was also the father of the poet Christopher Hassall and
the distinguished printmaker Joan Hassall.
185 ● JOHN HASSALL. “Red Riding Hood.”
Watercolor and ink. 395x305 mm; 151/2 x12 inches. Illustration for Blackie & Son Ltd.,
London. Signed lower right hand corner. Studio stamp on verso. Nd. [1,500/2,500]
186 ● ARTHUR HEMING. A Child
of the North (Winiwayah Child).
Ink and wash on wove paper. 285x225
mm; 11x9 inches. Signed lower right.
Pencil sketch of hunters on skis on verso.
Circa 1893. Slightly age toned.
[600/900]
WITH—Preliminary pencil sketch of the same on
thin laid paper. 248x200 mm; 91/2 x73/4 inches.
Signed and dated [18]93 lower left. Similarly
lightly age-toned, scattered foxing, two folds.
Heming was best known for his illustrations of
the peoples of Canada’s NorthernTerritories, and
was the author/illustrator of at least three novels.
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