Lot 127: FREDERICK SIMPSON COBURN, R.C.A., ROSE DELIMA, oil on canvas, 21 ins x 13 ins; 54 cms x 33.7 cms

FREDERICK SIMPSON COBURN, R.C.A.ROSE DELIMAoil on canvassigned and dated 1901 21 ins x 13 ins; 54 cms x 33.7 cms Provenance:Private Collection, OntarioLiterature:Gerald Stevens, Frederick SImpson Coburn, The Ryerson Press, Toronto, 1958, pages 3-4.Note:Coburn was commissioned to illustrate a collection of poems by Dr. William Henry Drummond on the subject of French Canadian habitant life. This lot depicts Virginie Baribeau from the poem, The Rose Delima, in Johnnie Courteau by Drummond. Drummond’s poems and Coburn’s illustrations were very successful earning Coburn further commissions to illustrate the work of such illustrious writers as Dickens, Washington Irving and Edgar Allen Poe.Estimate: $4,000–6,000

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