Ellen M. Murray Thomson Original Manuscript for 'Nancy and her Calf' Children's Story

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The original manuscript by Ellen M. Murray Thomson for 'Nancy and her Calf' Children's Story.

This interesting bundle comprises the original 3-page manuscript and 4-page typescript for a charming mid-century children's story, 'Nancy and Her Calf' by Scottish artist and author Ellen May Murray Thomson (1889–1984). Thomson collaborated on children's book projects with her husband, artist John Murray Thomson RSA. This is a charming example of a British children's storytelling tradition that combines interest in natural science with evocation of a simpler world pre-industrialisation.

Ellen M. Murray Thomson (1889–1984)

This manuscript forms part of a beautiful collection of works we have for sale by Scottish artist Ellen May Murray Thomson (1889–1984). Mostly executed under her maiden name Ellen May Frew, they predominantly date from before her marriage to artist John Murray Thomson RSA in 1917 (whose work we also have for sale). Whilst usually defined by her relationship to her better-known husband, Ellen Murray Thomson was in her own right an accomplished painter of animal subjects and floral Art Nouveau designs.

Ellen was daughter of John Rose Frew, a master watchmaker and Provost of Dingwall (1906–1911), and a portrait she did of her father is in the collection of Dingwall Museum. It appears that before Ellen married she was a commercial artist and illustrator, producing designs inspired by architectural ornament, and creating decorative works in the Art Nouveau style—including commissions for ceramics. Thomson lived in Edinburgh (John teaching at the Edinburgh College of Art) and her floral designs were produced in the decade just following that of Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s influential work in Glasgow.