Arthur Rackham: Closeted Up With the Fortune-Teller

Arthur Rackham's original illustration Closeted Up With the Fortune-Teller is available from Heritage Book Shop in Beverly Hills. It was published as color plate 4 in the artist's 1929 edition of Oliver Goldsmith's The Vicar of Wakefield and is selling for $12,500.

Arthur Rackham
Heritage Book Shop listing accessed July 30, 2023

https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/auction/2021/the-fantasy-world-of-arthur-rackham-rare-original-illustrations-from-the-collection-of-shirley-carter-burden/arthur-rackham-original-illustration-for-the-vicar-4

In December of 2021, Sotheby's offered this work, one of many fine original Rackham illustrations from the collection of Shirley Carter Burden. With an estimate of 7,000 to 9,000 GBP, the lot failed to find a buyer.

Arthur Rackham
Sotheby's, December 1, 2021, lot 25

https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/auction/2021/the-fantasy-world-of-arthur-rackham-rare-original-illustrations-from-the-collection-of-shirley-carter-burden/arthur-rackham-original-illustration-for-the-vicar-4

https://www.catawiki.com/en/l/70541029-olivier-goldsmith-arthur-rackham-ill-the-vicar-of-wakefield-1929

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