Wild Friends at Home (original cover art)

Gouache on paper, measures 430 x 310mm, being the original painting illustrating the cover of E. Chivers Davies’ ‘Wild Friends at Home’ (London : 1920). In this volume a little boy enters the imaginary worlds of the wild animals whose pictures decorate the walls of his nursery. The fifteen short tales include his adventure with Mrs Kangaroo – featured as the cover illustration, of which this is the original design. Leonard Robert Brightwell, an etcher and illustrator of animal subjects, was made a Fellow of the Zoological Society in 1906. Accompanied by a copy of the book, with the painting reproduced on the front cover.