"The Monks at the Library"
Colored stencil lithograph from the 1930s representing Monks at the Library, signed by the artist Harry Eliott. Perfect condition, never framed, very fresh in terms of colors, in a beautiful format.
Sheet format 32.5x45
Drawing format 25x36
Charles Edmond Hermet, better known as "Eliott" is a French draftsman, illustrator, painter and watercolourist. In love with England, he opted very early for an Anglo-Saxon pseudonym.
He is known for his many humorous stencils, of horsemen, hunters, monks and the like, in the Victorian style of the English illustrators he admired, such as Randolph Caldecott and Cecil Aldin.