Dorothy Fitchew - I Must Go Seek Some Dewdrops Here

Dorothy Fitchew - I Must Go Seek Some Dewdrops Here

£1,500

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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