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Le Temple de la Lumière (The Temple of Light)

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Walford Graham Robertson
1866-1948

Le Temple de la Lumière (The Temple of Light)

1915
8 9/16 x 6 11/16 inches (219 x 171 mm)
Black ink over graphite, on paper.
1986.2302

Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.

Notes
Title from second drawing by this artist of the same subject (see 1986.2301).
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.
Classification
Century Drawings