Watercolour and gouache over ink, 22 by 16 cm

Provenance: the artist's estate; Campbell Wilson Fine Art

Sold with the printed proof of the final dust jacket (see below)

This is Baynes's cover design for Rosamond Bayne-Powell's social history book, Housekeeping in the 18th Century, which was published by John Murray in 1956.

Anthony Baynes studied at the Slade School of Art where his 1946 painting The Betrayal (now in the collection of the UCL Art Museum) won the Mary Richgitz Prize. An accomplished designer of both murals, theatrical sets (briefly for Sadler's Wells in the 1940s) and decorated furniture, Baynes was a notable designer of dust jackets from the 1950s to the 1970s, working for publishers including John Murray, Capes and Eyre and Spottiswoode.