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Walford Graham Robertson
1866-1948
The Water-Lily
1889
image: 3 1/2 x 6 1/2 inches (89 x 165 mm); on sheet: 11 1/8 x 8 5/8 inches (284 x 220 mm)
Black ink over graphite, on paper.
1986.2356
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
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Drawing illustrating the poem "The water lily" by Alexander Hume Butler; issued as an illustration in "Five songs" by Ernest Birch (London : J. & J. Hopkinson, 1889).
Drawing illustrating the poem "The water lily" by Alexander Hume Butler; issued as an illustration in "Five songs" by Ernest Birch (London : J. & J. Hopkinson, 1889).
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In pencil at bottom, "The Water-Lily"; caption verse in pencil below drawing, "Thou wilt never know the morrow / That beholds thee desolate."
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Century Drawings
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