WW DENSLOW There was an Old Woman Tossed up in a Basket

Sale 2495 - Lot 20

Unsold

Estimate: $ 2,500 - $ 3,500

W.W. DENSLOW.
"There was an Old Woman Tossed up in a Basket." Illustration published in "Ye Old Time Nursery Rhymes by Mother Goose" (Buffalo: Baldwin & Strachan, 1939) but created circa 1910 for advertising pamphlets. Pen and ink with graphite tracing, on stiff paper. 368x495 mm; 14 1/2x19 1/2 inches. Signed "DEN" and with seahorse monogram in lower right image and captioned in pencil in upper margin. Some toning to outer margins.

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This illustration, and the one in lot 20 below, were re-discovered after Denslow's death and published in the late 1930s but had first appeared in the teens. The pictures debuted in "Youth Magazine," a hand-out to patrons of Dodd's Dairy in Buffalo, New York. See Greene, Douglas G. and Michael Patrick Hearn, "W. W. Denslow" (Mount Pleasant: Clarke Historical Library, 1976).

Both images are unusually large for Denslow's children's book illustrations.