Henry Meynell Rheam (1859-1920) The dragon's cave (recto); Study for Lady of Shalott (verso)...

Henry Meynell Rheam (1859-1920)

The dragon's cave (recto); Study for Lady of Shalott (verso)

Signed (recto)

Watercolour (recto); watercolour and charcoal (verso)

31.5 x 64 cm; 12½ x 25¼in

Rheam used the composition of The dragon's cave in his 1908 work Once Upon a Time, with the knight and dragon replaced by a group of elves (See Sotheby's, London, 15 June 2000, lot 409). For the finished version Lady of Shalott, see Bonhams, London, 9 November 2004, lot 106.