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Thomas Cooper Gotch
La Belle Dame sans Merci 1879
etching and aquatint
21.6 × 17.6 cm (image) 22.8 × 17.6 cm (plate) 38.1 × 27.3 cm (sheet)
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Felton Bequest, 1939
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La Belle Dame sans Merci
1879
Medium
etching and aquatint
Measurements
21.6 × 17.6 cm (image) 22.8 × 17.6 cm (plate) 38.1 × 27.3 cm (sheet)
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Felton Bequest, 1939
Gallery location
Not on display
Artwork Details
Inscription
printed (diagonally) in ink (in image) l.r.: T.C. Gotch. / 79
printed in ink l.l.: LA BELLE DAME SANS MERCI
printed in ink l.c.r.: “She took me to her elfin prot / “And there she wept and sigh’d full sore, / “And there I shut her wild wild eyes / “With kisses four.”
printed in ink l.r.: KEATS.
inscribed in pencil l.r.: T. C. Gotch. (all underlined)
Accession Number
725-4
Departments
International Prints / International Prints and Drawings
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