Lot 221: NEILL, JOHN R[EA]. 1877-1943. Original pen-and-ink drawing, "'Seize her!' suddenly shouted the King,"

NEILL, JOHN R[EA]. 1877-1943.
Original pen-and-ink drawing, "'Seize her!' suddenly shouted the King," depicting Polychrome being pursued by General Guph and the Nome King, 415 x 300 mm. Matted and framed.Publication: Tick-Tok of Oz by L. Frank Baum (Chicago: Reilly & Britton Co., 1914), p 187.Tik-Tok of Oz was based on Baum's 1913 musical extravaganza The Tik-Tok Man of Oz that was a pastiche of earlier stories. Polychrome, who first appeared in The Road to Oz in 1909, was making her second appearance in an Oz Book. She also played a crucial role in Baum's non-Oz fantasy Sky Island (1912).