Widdicombe Fair

 

Pamela Colman Smith

  1878 - 1951 (biography)

1899  

13 lithographs, colored by pochoir. 

about 9-1/8 x 9" each image 

unsigned; artist's symbol in lower left corners; watercolor signed with initials beneath image, in watercolor. 

216 of 500  

numbered in ink 

 

slick wove attached to a cream wove support sheet. 

published 

Doubleday & McClure, Co. 

17673 

SOLD

A portfolio of 13 pochoir colored images illustrate the song "Widdicombe Fair", a popular dance melody in England at the time, and the title page is the sheet music. Each illustration is tipped-in, on antique-white wove loose support sheets, as issued. The portfolio is bound in maroon leather with cotton ties. A smaller version of the final image, a "ghost horse", is pasted onto the back of the portfolio; a vignette of a man's side profile is on the inside of the title page, along with a lable stating the artist's name and the publisher's information.