Feb 20, 2025 - Sale 2695

Sale 2695 - Lot 5

Price Realized: $ 562
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 700 - $ 1,000

WILLIAM H. BRADLEY (1868-1962)

FIELD FLOWERS. 1896.


20½x11¾ inches, 52x29¾ cm. [The Spectrotype Co., Chicago].
Condition A: minor creases in image. Matted and framed.

"Field Flowers was produced to promote a memorial edition of poems by Eugene Field. The girl forming the central figure in the design anticipates Bradley's later illustrations for his children's stories" (Koch p. 99). This version does not have the text printed in the bottom margin.

DFP-I 179, Bradley p. 48, Koch p. 98, The Met 1990.1107.