Apr 26, 2018 - Sale 2475

Sale 2475 - Lot 118

Price Realized: $ 688
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
GILL, ERIC. "Henry's Doubts." Wood engraved proof on paper. Illustration to face page 54 of Shakespeare's Henry the Eighth, published by The Limited Editions Club, New York, 1939 (engraving created 1937.) 203x152 mm; 8x6 inches, image, on 131x235 mm; 15x9 1/4 inch-sheet. Signed and numbered 10/10 in pencil, lower margin. Tipped to stiff board window matte and framed. Bright, clean image. Ex-collection Tullah Hanley, with her gift inscription on frame backing. Skelton/Physick 927.

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Tullah Hanley was the colorful and eccentric wife of Pennsylvania oil and gas magnate, T. Edward Hanley, who amassed a major collection of important art, rare books, and manuscripts. The two were extremely generous, donating parts of their collection to several institutions which Tullah carried on with great enthusiasm after her husband's death.