Lot 54: * Herkomer (Sir Hubert von, 1849-1914). A Peasant

* Herkomer (Sir Hubert von, 1849-1914). A Peasant of the Bavarian Alps, Garmisch, July, 1875, watercolour and pencil on thick paper, monogram 'H.H.', place and date lower right, 18 x 10.5cm (7 x 4ins), pasted on to a slightly larger sheet of white paper and inscribed by the artist in purple ink with title and note, '(leaf from my sketching book.) Personifies: Hard work for small pay. The Roman Catholic church in its most bigoted form - and Bavarian Beer (at least once a week. Hubert Herkomer, Oct. 1875', together with "While I sing my Lullaby", April 1875, words by L.F. Fowler set to music by Herkomer, autgraph music signed and dated in matching purple ink on matching album paper, 2pp., 8vo (2)