Watercolour over pencil, 23 by 18 cm

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

Baynes was a favoured dust jacket designer for the publishers Eyre & Spottiswoode, working with them on jacket designs from the 1950s through to the 1970s. This charming design for the firm's Christmas card probably dates from the later 1950s.

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.