Photographic reproduction of ink drawing by the English artist C. W. Furse, for an 1892 menu, titled 'GHOULS', and carrying an original signed inscription by Furse 'To my friend H[ercules]. [Brabazon] Brabazon. [signed] Charles W Furse.'
Author:
C. W. Furse [Charles Wellington Furse (1868-1904); Hercules Brabazon Brabazon (1821-1906), English painter]
Publication details:
Dated as part of the design 25 January 1892 and 'C. W. FURSE ./ 92'.
£325.00
SKU: 10287
Portrait: 34.5 x 20 cm. Laid down on a piece of paper of the same size. Good: a little dusty and with unobtrusive 1.5 cm closed tear to left margin, and minor traces of previous mounting on reverse. Very good reproduction, on photographic paper of a complex, ghostly scene in a moonlit graveyard, with a number of supernatural figures among the graves. Decorative border with elongated skeletons. In the centre of the design is a crooked gravestone, roughly 14 x 8 cm, illuminated by a witch with a lantern, on which are written, in Furse's hand, the 'Hors D'Oeuvres', with Furse's inscription in pencil at the foot. Unlike the rest of the design, Furse's signature and inscription to Brabazon are undoubtedly original. No other copy yet traced.