![]() ![]() Coats’ sale at Christie’s in London on 12 April 1935 (lot 8) through Reid & Lefevre. Burrell acquired the set for £336 (for set of ten) from the T. They then passed to Thomas Heywood Coats of Nitshill and Major John A. Coats gave Paterson permission to print and publish a limited edition of two hundred copies which were sold at ten guineas each. The drawings were sold to art dealer William Bell Paterson of 5 Bond Street, London who sold them to Paisley thread maker, William Allen Coats, another Crawhall collector. The financial uncertainty around this time perhaps explains the unusual commission, as illustrative work was not his natural preference. They were made at Brockenhurst where Crawhall was staying with his sister following the death of his father. :, - new york dodd, mead & company printed in great britain by the whitefriars press. ' the king orders you to return without delay.' 4 reynard the fox told by c s evans with illustrations by l-r-brightwelu. The series demonstrates Crawhall’s talent for illustration and animal characterisation. ajsju afisb p ny public library the branch l brar ts 3 3333 02336 4645 picture 1 reynard the fox good evening,' said the cat. Based on William Caxton’s 1481 edition, they narrate the tricks that the wiley Reynard plays on unsuspecting individuals within the animal kingdom. This watercolour is one of ten illustrations Crawhall made of the medieval fable of Reynard the Fox for Glasgow textile manufacturer Thomas Glen Arthur. Cuwart, whose position at the front is vulnerable, is soon dead. Humour is added through the ironic and rather lopsided halo above Reynard’s head. Crawhall suggests Bellin the Ram’s puffed up pride through his ornate robes and Reynard’s cunning with his shifty glance. He asks Bellin the Ram to bless him and then to join him on the start of the pilgrimage, along with Cuwart the Hare. He wears a monk’s cassock, with a crucifix suspended from his belt, and carries a bag and a staff. Having been brought to court and narrowly escaping the death sentence, Reynard the Fox sets out on a pilgrimage.
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