Dorothy Fitchew - I Must Go Seek Some Dewdrops Here
Dorothy Fitchew - I Must Go Seek Some Dewdrops Here
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DOROTHY FITCHEW
(1889-1975)
“I Must Go Seek Some Dewdrops Here,
And Hang a Pearl in Every Cowslip’s Ear.”
Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act II, Scene I
Signed l.l.: DOROTHY FITCHEW
Watercolour and pen and ink heightened with white
Framed
28.5 by 20 cm., 11 ¼ by 8 in.
(frame size 43 by 33 cm., 17 by 13 in.)
Julia Dorothy Fitchew was born in Camberwell, the daughter of the illustrator and art editor, Edward Hubert Fitchew (1851-1934). Between 1911-1915 she exhibited a number of large and elaborate watercolours of Shakespearean and legendary subjects at the Royal Academy. She later worked as an illustrator, including a 1930 collaboration with Charles Folkard on an edition of nursery rhymes. In later years she increasingly specialised in natural history subjects and illustrations. The Natural History Museum, London, hold a collection of her work.
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