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Lot 175
ORIGINAL ARTWORK YUNGE-BATEMAN (JOHN) Three large illustrations of insects and a maquette, [?1950s/early 60s] (4)
1 December 2021, 12:00 GMT
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £637.50 inc. premium
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YUNGE-BATEMAN (JOHN) - ORIGINAL ARTWORK
Three large illustrations of insects (Ruby Tail Wasp; Icheumon wasp; ?purple winged damselflies on a yellow lily), pen, watercolour and gouache on artist's pasteboard, 2 with the artist's name on verso (one with his address of "The Long House, Angley Park, Cranbrook, Kent"), all with stamp of the "B.L. Kearley Ltd." agency, damselfly 390 x 275mm., others 380 x 260mm., undated; [BEES] "What Insects Do", a complete manuscript maquette of a picture book on bees, attributable to Yunge-Bateman, 46 pages (including pictorial title, double-page map "Where to look for...[17 types of bees and wasps]", endpapers, etc.), each with illustrations of bees or wasps, 10 in ink with watercolour and gouache, the remainder in pencil, original cloth, 4to (250 x 170mm.), [?1950s/early 60s] (4)
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Yunge-Bateman (1897-1971) is perhaps best known for the artwork he provided for several Golden Cockerel Press publications (including the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam), but from the late 1940s onwards illustrated many children's natural history books, including two devoted to the subject of the bee, as in this mock-up for a book seemingly never to come to press.

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