PAYNTER, (Hilary).
Christmas card featuring a wood-engraving design by Paynter of a goblin man proffering forbidden fruit (an illustration from Goblin Market).
Near fine Christmas card by one of the UK's leading wood-engravers.
Illustrating Christina Rossetti’s famous poem, reminiscent of this passage:
“Come buy, come buy:
Our grapes fresh from the vine,
Pomegranates full and fine…
Sweet to tongue and sound to eye;
Come buy, come buy…”
Near fine Christmas card by one of the UK’s leading wood-engravers.
