FROST A B Boldly she spoke Soldiers attend Gouache drawing

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FROST, A. B. "Boldly she spoke: 'Soldiers attend!' " Original illustration of Ellen speaking to soldiers in the Guard-Room, from Canto the Sixth of Sir Walter Scott's The Lady of the Lake. Gouache, ink, and white and grey wash on paper. 245x300mm, sheet, backed in linen, Signed "A. F. Frost `82" in black ink, lower right, titled in pencil lower margin, with a few other size indications and paint marks in margins, pencil sketch of a layout of squares on verso. Np, 1882

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Arthur Burdett Frost (1851-1928) was one of the great artists of the "Golden Age of American Illustration." Although he was red-green color blind, this did not pose a great handicap to him, since he usually worked in muted shades as in this image. Also, his works were often reproduced in black-and-white. When painting with color Frost managed to work successfully by reading the labels on the tubes and placing the colors in a specific order on his palette. His illustrations for The Lady of the Lake were published in 1883 by James R. Osgood & Co., Boston, as part of the illustrated Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott.