[''Biddie found herself in Sully's arms''.]
Cynthia Harnett. C.M.H. [n.d., c.1944.] Drawing. 220 x 150mm (8½ x 6"). Laid on board with annotations. An original illustration showing a young girl crying while sitting on a woman's knee. An illustration by illustrator and author Cynthia Harnett (1893-1981) who collaborated on works about dogs with George Vernon Stokes (1873-1954), for Muriel Denison's 'Happy Tramp: the Story of a Little Girl and Her Old English Sheep Dog', 1944. After her father is wounded as a soldier in World War II and her mother is killed by in a German air raid Biddie and her Old English Sheepdog are evacuated to America where her father has found work as a kennel man for a wealthy New York dog breeder.
[Ref: 47830] £30.00
(£36.00 incl.VAT)
[''All the children brought dogs''.]
C.M.H. V.S. [n.d., c.1944.] Drawing. Sheet: 130 x 180mm (5 x 7"). On board with pencil annotations. A scene in which several children and their dogs sit on a bench. An original illustration by illustrator and author Cynthia Harnett (1893-1981) and animal artist George Vernon Stokes (1873-1954), probably for Muriel Denison's 'Happy Tramp: the Story of a Little Girl and Her Old English Sheep Dog', 1944. After her father is wounded as a soldier in World War II and her mother is killed by in a German air raid Biddie and her Old English Sheepdog are evacuated to America where her father has found work as a kennel man for a wealthy New York dog breeder.
[Ref: 47831] £140.00
(£168.00 incl.VAT)
[''She thought the judging would never end''.]
C.M.H. V.S. [n.d., c.1944.] Drawing. Sheet: 205 x 185mm (8 x 7¼"). On board with pencil annotations. A scene showing a young girl showing her Old English Sheepdog in a dog show. An original illustration by illustrator and author Cynthia Harnett (1893-1981) and animal artist George Vernon Stokes (1873-1954), for Muriel Denison's 'Happy Tramp: the Story of a Little Girl and Her Old English Sheep Dog', 1944. After her father is wounded as a soldier in World War II and her mother is killed by in a German air raid Biddie and her Old English Sheepdog are evacuated to America where her father has found work as a kennel man for a wealthy New York dog breeder.
[Ref: 47832] £220.00
(£264.00 incl.VAT)