Title from item; attribution from GNR checklist.
Drawing for an illustration for the poem "Hope in darkness" by Isaac Watts.
Caption directly below central design reads, "Hope in darkness"; above, "Watts Lyric Poems:"; lettered below, within decorative border, "Line 27. Break, glorious brightnefs, shoot one glimmering ray, One glance of thine creates a day, And drives the troops of hell away."
Circular central design shows a woman reclining with her arms folded to her chest and eyes looking heavenward; directly above her hover two frowning figures, one of whom carries a torch, and beyond them are dark clouds, with the rising sun visible at upper left. Framing the central design is an illustrated border, with the sun at top and a rooster at lower left.
Ray, Gordon Norton, 1915-1986, former owner.