Fanny was obliged to introduce him to Mr Crawford’, an ink and watercolour version (right) of an illustration made by Hugh Thomson for an 1897 Macmillan edition of Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park.
In that book, Thomson’s drawings are reproduced quite small and as line drawings only, but he later added colour to the originals before selling them.
This one made £2200 in a Forum Auctions (25/20/12% buyer’s premium) sale held on July 10, where a second drawing, made for Northanger Abbey, reached £2000.