Illustration for the Book "Little Lord Fauntleroy"

The rectangular drawing is done in black ink and watercolours in crimson and blue-green colours. In the centre is a young man sitting in a chair. He is dressed in the traditional clothing of an English lord: a black frock coat with a white collar and white stockings, a lavish hairstyle, and long curly hair. The chair is decorated with carved legs in the shape of plant shoots, an oval backrest adorned with plant motifs, and finished with a coat of arms and handles featuring the heads of mythical animals on the ends. The soft part is decorated with crimson upholstery. The background is a blue-green oval with a black texture. The chair itself stands on a floor resembling small cobblestones. Above the drawing is a semicircular inscription in black ink: "Frances Burnett". Below the drawing is a crimson watercolour inscription: "Little Lord". The drawing is framed by a black rectangular frame. "Little Lord" ("Little Lord Fauntleroy") is the first novel for children written by Anglo-American writer Frances Hodgson Burnett, which quickly became famous and has remained one of the favourite books of children for decades. Alfred Zmuda created about a dozen illustrations and several cover designs for the book, which was published in 1923 in Lviv by Mykhailo Taran and translated by Varvara Litynska.

At the bottom of the drawing, to the left of the chair leg, is the author's monogram in black paint: a stylised letter A inscribed in a circle; below it, in a semicircle, are the numbers "1921". Reverse: at the top right is an illegible inscription in pencil.

Borys Voznytskyi Lviv National Art Gallery