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Mary Adshead (1904 - 1995):
The Little Boy and His House, 1936
Unmounted (ref: 9140)
Crayon and watercolor
11 1/8 x 15 in. (28.3 x 38.1 cm)See all works by Mary Adshead crayon watercolour Mary Adshead (1904-1995) & Stephen Bone (1904-1958)
Provenance: The Artist's Family
Literature: Clough, Mathew/ Compton, Ann, Earthly delights Mary Adshead 1904-1995, University of Liverpool Art Gallery, 2005
The Little Boy and His House was published by; J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd in 1936, a collaborations between Stephen Bone (author) and Mary Adshead (illustrator).
The book featured fourteen colour-lithographed plates together with printed calligraphic text and other illustrations and decorations in black and white
The story tells of a little boy who wants to build a house because he always seems to be either too hot or too cold in his own. His uncle takes him on a worldwide trip to discover how people from other cultures construct their homes. They visit cave dwellers, gypsies, Red Indians, Eskimos, boat people in China, straw hut and adobe house-dwellers in Africa, stone quarriers in Ireland and log house builders in Sweden, among others.
