Feb 20 at 10:30 AM - Sale 2695 -

Sale 2695 - Lot 5

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.