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La Pays du Souvenir (The Land of Memory)

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Walford Graham Robertson
1866-1948

La Pays du Souvenir (The Land of Memory)

1915
5 3/4 x 6 11/16 inches (146 x 172 mm)
Black ink over graphite, on card.
1986.2296

Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.

Notes
Title from item.
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.
Inscriptions/Markings
At foot: La Pays du Souvenir. The Land of Memory; numbered "3" at bottom center.
Classification
Century Drawings