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Lanterns of Sarras
(1932)
Medium
etching and plate-tone
Measurements
28.2 × 18.4 cm (plate) 47.2 × 37.8 cm (sheet)
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Felton Bequest, 1947
Gallery location
Not on display
Artwork Details
Catalogue/s Raisonné
Wright & Dodgson 47 iii/iv
Edition
3rd of 4 states
Inscription
printed in ink l.l.: Amid the blue smoke of gem-glassed chapels you shall find me, the white, five-mounded Flower, the Rose of Sarras. / Yea, the mothshave-eaten and fretter the gold cloths of the Duke of York & lost is the scarlet cloak of the Cardinal / Beaufort; tapers are quenched & rods of silver broken where once King Richard dined beneath the leopards: / But think you that any beautifulnedd is wasteed with which Mine angels have blessed the blue-eyed English, twining in- / -to stone an obscure dream of Heaven, a crown of flinty spines about the Rose, a slim flame blessing the Coronal of Thorns? /And York is forever the White Rose of Mary, & Lancaster is dipt in the Precious Blood, though the high shrine that was built by / the kin of the Romans be down at Hayles, & the abbey ofSaint Mary be shattered now in three-towered Eboracum.
inscribed in pencil l.c.r.: F. L. Griggs
Accession Number
1788-4
Departments
International Prints / International Prints and Drawings
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