The first publication in its original form (but without caption) of the painting of a coiled dragon, originally captioned "hringboga heorte gefysed," made in Sept. 1927. The painting was displayed in an exhibition at the Ashmolean Museum (1976-77) and the National Book League (1977), with publication of the image in the 1976 exhibition catalog (Catalogue of an Exhibition of Drawings by J. R. R. Tolkien at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 14th December-27th February, 1976-1977 and at the National Book League, 7 Albemarle Street, London W1, 2nd March-7th April, 1977).
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