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Walford Graham Robertson
1866-1948
My True Love Hath My Heart
1889
Black ink over graphite, on paper.
image: 3 11/16 x 6 1/2 inches (94 x 165 mm); on sheet: 13 3/8 x 10 inches (343 x 254 mm)
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
1986.2357
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Drawing illustrating the poem "My true-love hath my heart" by Sir Philip Sydney; issued as an illustration in "Five songs" by Ernest Birch.
Initialed "GR" at lower right.
Inscription:
In pencil below, "My true love" [crossed out] hath my heart"; caption verse in pencil directly below drawing, "My true love hath my heart and I have his".
Provenance:
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary:
Drawing shows a young woman in medieval dress half reclining upon a divan; she holds up a heart-shaped locket in one hand and her other rests upon a lute at her side; a plumed helmet and sword rest on a stool at her feet.
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