{"id":34592,"date":"2009-12-09T18:43:01","date_gmt":"2009-12-09T23:43:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=34592"},"modified":"2009-12-09T18:43:01","modified_gmt":"2009-12-09T23:43:01","slug":"tolkien-art-for-auction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2009\/12\/09\/34592-tolkien-art-for-auction\/","title":{"rendered":"Tolkien Art for Auction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sothebys.com\/app\/live\/lot\/LotDetail.jsp?lot_id=159566775\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/L09777-178-lr-1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Sotheby&#039;s Auction\" title=\"Sotheby&#039;s Auction\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-34593 no-lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/L09777-178-lr-1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/L09777-178-lr-1.jpg 210w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>Sotheby\u2019s is delighted to announce that their English Literature, History, Children\u2019s Books &#038; Illustrations auction on 17 December (sale code L09777) will include an exceptionally early drawing by J.R.R. Tolkien. It is exceptionally rare for original artwork by Tolkien to be offered at auction. This early example depicts his aunt\u2019s farm (\u2018Lamb\u2019s Farm, Gedling, Notts\u2019) and shows the location where he composed the earliest known writing that relates to his mythology.<\/p>\n<p>The lot can be viewed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sothebys.com\/app\/live\/lot\/LotDetail.jsp?lot_id=159566775\">here<\/a> or the e-catalogue for the entire sale is available <a href=\"http:\/\/catalogue.sothebys.com\/events\/L09777\">here<\/a> (please note that the e-catalogue can take some time to load and the Tolkien drawing is lot 178).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sotheby\u2019s is delighted to announce that their English Literature, History, Children\u2019s Books &#038; Illustrations auction on 17 December&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[14,153,18,152],"tags":[1033],"class_list":["post-34592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-tolkien-life","category-merchandise","category-tolkien","tag-sothebys"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-8ZW","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34592\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}