Lot 515: Joshua Charles Armitage 'Ionicus' (b.1913)

A damsel in distress
signed 'Ionicus' (lower right) and inscribed 'A Damsel in Distress' (in the margins)
pencil, watercolour and brown ink
9 x 12 in. (23 x 30.5 cm.); and an illustration entitled 'Another pierrot, my lady' by William Sillince (2)

It has been suggested that the first part of this lot may have been the original cover design for P.G. Wodehouse's A Damsel in Distress, published by Penguin, London, 1989.

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