BRIGGS, Raymond (1934-2022)

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Lot 97 | BRIGGS, Raymond (1934-2022)
BRIGGS, Raymond (1934-2022)

'The Real Princess', original artwork for The Fairy Tale Treasury, ed. Virginia Haviland (1972)

395 x 320mm

watercolour, pen, pencil and correcting fluid on card

numbered ‘171’ in the bottom margin, annotated by the publisher in top margin, stamped with the artist's name and address on the verso



A charming Raymond Briggs fairytale illustration. 'The Real Princess', from Hans Christian Andersen's 'Princess and the pea', was among 32 of the world's best-loved fairytales selected by the American writer and authority on children's literature, Virginia Haviland, for a compendium published in 1972. She chose the British artist Raymond Briggs to illustrate the volume; Briggs would go on to win the second of his Greenaway Medals for children's book illustration the year after The Fairy Tale Treasury was published.



1970s

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