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Summary
Wayne G. Hammond and Christina Scull have noted that this drawing "has been published only in the first edition of Pictures by J.R.R. Tolkien [...] a tracing Tolkien had made of the ink frontispiece [of the first printing of The Hobbit] to transfer its outlines to a fresh sheet, on which he made the watercolour version".[1]
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References
- ↑ Wayne G. Hammond and Christina Scull, "Re: The Hill sketch" 25 July 2017, Tolkien Collector's Guide, accessed 25 April 2017
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| 01:48, 21 February 2006 |  | 377 × 472 (29 KB) | Hyarion (talk | contribs) | By J.R.R. Tolkien. The drawing of Hobbiton was the frontispiece to the original impression of The Hobbit, 1937, which had no colored pictures, and it has not been published since. Category:Images by J.R.R. Tolkien |
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