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DRAFT ILLUSTRATION IN INK FOR THE UGLY DUCKLING. ANDERSEN, HANS CHRISTIAN. 1805-1875. HOYTEMA, THEO VAN, illustrator. Original pen and ink drawing for illustration number 2 in Het Leelijke jonge eendje (The Ugly Duckling, 1893), "Castle with bridge surrounded by water," image 1
DRAFT ILLUSTRATION IN INK FOR THE UGLY DUCKLING. ANDERSEN, HANS CHRISTIAN. 1805-1875. HOYTEMA, THEO VAN, illustrator. Original pen and ink drawing for illustration number 2 in Het Leelijke jonge eendje (The Ugly Duckling, 1893), "Castle with bridge surrounded by water," image 2
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DRAFT ILLUSTRATION IN INK FOR THE UGLY DUCKLING.
ANDERSEN, HANS CHRISTIAN. 1805-1875. HOYTEMA, THEO VAN, illustrator.
Original pen and ink drawing for illustration number 2 in Het Leelijke jonge eendje (The Ugly Duckling, 1893), "Castle with bridge surrounded by water,"

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DRAFT ILLUSTRATION IN INK FOR THE UGLY DUCKLING.

ANDERSEN, HANS CHRISTIAN. 1805-1875. HOYTEMA, THEO VAN, illustrator. Original pen and ink drawing for illustration number 2 in Het Leelijke jonge eendje (The Ugly Duckling, 1893), "Castle with bridge surrounded by water," 265 x 195 mm, lettered ink with text, and annotated in the lower margin by the artist, "Eerste bladzijde - Het Leelijke jonge eendje - ontwerp-tekening, later gewijzigd," signed in foreground near duckling with artist's monogram "TVH," framed to 405 x 330 mm.

Van Hoytema's illustrated edition of The Ugly Duckling was first published in Dutch in 1893, then in English in London in 1894.

Van Hoytema (1863-1917) was the most significant Dutch designer and lithographer at the end of the nineteenth century. A founder of the Art Nouveau movement in the Netherlands, Van Hoytema's lithography is still considered the best work produced there, and his The Ugly Duckling one of his most important works. "The real break-through book for Hoytema, however, was Het leelijke jonge Eendje, Hans Christian Andersen's Ugly Duckling, of 1893, in which a balance between close observation and cloisonné-like stylization is fully achieved and the hand-written text is beautifully integrated with the drawn images" (Ackley, "A Hoytema Archive in Boston," Print Quarterly, 2011).

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