THE BABES IN THE WOOD. The Original Watercolour Painting later reproduced in The Ingoldsby Legends.

Pen, ink and watercolour on paper. The image measures 22 x 14.5 cms. Mounted, framed and glazed. With the artist's handwritten title label (and address) and the Royal Society of Painters in Water Colours exhibition label from July 1909 with the purchaser's details and price paid retained on the original backboard. In fine condition.

This piece is illustrated as a full page colour plate opposite page 356 in the 1907 revised and enlarged edition of The Ingoldsby Legends, published by J. M. Dent (and re-issued by William Heinemann).