Pure Gold

Damn. I'm really mad at myself. I mis-credited the last post with the great Krenkel drawing, even though I knew better. I purposely didn't credit it on the main post, because I doubted the caption in the Vanguard Krenkel book. But when the question came in about its source I doubted myself and went with the book caption. I KNEW better.

So now, when I put THESE two images together for the first time, I find a discrepancy that makes me question the source's caption. The Krenkel color illustration below is captioned in Illustration Magazine as The Baths of Khandahar. Whereas the grey-tone study is labeled in Krenkel's writing as a study for Zenobia. Khandahar is an ancient city of Afghanistan, and Zenobia was a 3rd century queen of Palmyra, which is present day Syria.

I suppose Illustration Magazine is accurate with the caption, but now I don't trust anyone's info . . . except for Mr. Door Tree.

In any event, once again, pure Krenkel gold: