Page 68 - Swann Galleries - 20th Century Illustration - Sale 2300 - January 24, 2013

114 ● PAUL BRANSOM. Halloween
Jack-o-Lantern with Cat.
7 variations of color roughs in crayon,
pencil, ink, and watercolor depicting a
frightened cat with glowing jack-o-
lantern against a black night sky, on a single
sheet, one Signed in full, four Initialed in
ink, lower margins. 457x432mm; 18x17
inches, sheet, on cream wove paper, with
faint pencil grid lines, scattered mild
creasing and wrinkling, professionally
matted and framed in archival acrylic and
black painted wooden frame, chipping
along top and bottom edges. Circa 1940.
[800/1,200]
115 ● LEONARD LESLIE BROOKE.
“When it fell, there among its roots sat a goose, with feathers of pure gold.” Watercolor
and ink illustration for The Golden Goose. 245x190 mm; 9 3/4 x71/2 inches. Signed with
initials lower left hand corner. London: FrederickWarne, 1905. [2,000/3,000]
Includes a proof hand-colored by Brooke with slight variations from the finished watercolor.
Best known for his classic Johnny Crow’s Garden, L. Leslie Brooke was also an important
British illustrator of nursery rhymes and fairy tales includingThe Golden Goose. He was the
one who convinced his publishers FrederickWarne & Co. to issueTheTale of Peter Rabbit by
the then unknown Beatrix Potter in 1902.
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