Jan 24, 2013 - Sale 2300

Sale 2300 - Lot 186

Unsold
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
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.

Additional Details

with--Preliminary pencil sketch of the same on thin laid paper. 248x200 mm; 9 1/2x7 3/4 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 Northern Territories, and was the author/illustrator of at least three novels.