Jun 24, 2021 - Sale 2574

Sale 2574 - Lot 8

Price Realized: $ 2,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
HARRISON CADY (1877-1970)
"'Pooh!' exclaimed Reddy Fox. 'Who's afraid of that fellow?'" Illustration for page 10 of The Adventures of Prickly Porky by Thornton Burgess (Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1916). Ink, ink wash, and gouache on board. 305x233 mm; 12x9 inches (image), on 22 1/2x14-inch board. Signed "Harrison Cady" in lower left image and captioned in lower margin with "Prickly Porky" in upper margin. Laid into matte and archivally framed. A copy of the aforementioned 1916 edition of the book accompanies the lot, along with a 1943 edition in which the illustration in the lot is not pictured (Don Mills, Ontario: McClelland & Stewart, Limited, 1943).

Provenance: Acquired by current owner from Illustration House, Inc.