"This exhibition follows in the line of commemorative exhibitions mounted during recent years, of works by artists whose merits were eclipsed, unjustly some may think, after the first of the European cataclysms of the 20th century. Few can recall the enthusiasm caused by Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale's first exhibition at the Dowdeswell Galleries in 1901; few will have noticed her name in the catalogues of museums, sale rooms or art dealers from the twenties until the late sixties; but many will still remember with pleasure at least some of her illustrations for books, and learn, perhaps with surprise, that the originals of whole series have not been traced. This is numerically the largest exhibition of her works held so far and also the most varied, comprising as it does several media and divert literary inspirations."
(K. J. Garlick, Keeper of Western Art)

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