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Walford Graham Robertson
1866-1948
L'Adieu (The Leave Taking)
1915
5 3/4 x 6 7/8 inches (146 x 174 mm)
Black ink over graphite, on card.
1986.2307
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
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One of a series of drawings to illustrate a French edition of Maurice Maeterlinck's The blue bird (i.e. L'Oiseau bleu); completed by Robertson in 1915, but evidently never published. Cf. Letters from Graham Robertson / edited by Kerrison Preston. London : Hamish Hamilton, 1953, p. 30-34.
One of a series of drawings to illustrate a French edition of Maurice Maeterlinck's The blue bird (i.e. L'Oiseau bleu); completed by Robertson in 1915, but evidently never published. Cf. Letters from Graham Robertson / edited by Kerrison Preston. London : Hamish Hamilton, 1953, p. 30-34.
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At foot: L'Adieu. The Leave Taking; numbered "9" at bottom center.
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Century Drawings
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