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Alfred Crowquill
Boy Riding a Giant Sunfish
Graphite on paper.
6 1/16 x 5 1/2 inches (154 x 139 mm)
Gift of DeCoursey Fales, 1956.
1956.28:3
Notes:
Original drawing, evidently one of a series executed by Crowquill for an unidentified children's book.
Inscription:
Numbered "3" in pen at upper right; with "12 for 21/-" in pencil.
Provenance:
DeCoursey Fales.
Summary:
Drawing shows a boy riding on the back of a giant ocean sunfish or mola mola, with the moon sketched in on the horizon at left.
Associated names:
Fales, DeCoursey, 1888-1966, former owner.
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