JESSIE WILCOX SMITH The Water Babies

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JESSIE WILCOX SMITH. The Water Babies.
Original mixed-media (pen and ink and watercolor) illustrations for The Water Babies, comprising one large sheet of six different images. 565x720 mm; 22x28 inches. Executed 1915-1916 and appearing in her famous Kingsley classic, The Water-Babies in 1916. On the verso is a written note, presumably in Smith's hand, stating: "Title- Illustrations for Water Babies/ Artist- Jessie Willcox Smith." Intermittent mild foxing, cheifly marginal. Not examined out of frame.

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Line drawings for any of Smith's books are quite scarce, and these are among her most important works. All of the oil paintings for The Water Babies are in the Library of Congress, the only group of paintings for any of her major books ever to be archived together in a public institution.