Lot Essay
This picture illustrated the above lines for Robert Browning's poem 'Rabbi Ben Ezra', in the Dramatis Personae series, published in 1864.
Details
Eleanor Fortescue Brickdale (British, 1871-1945)
Thy body at its rest
How far can that project
Thy soul on its lone way
signed 'E F BRICKDALE' lower right and inscribed 'Thy body at its rest/How far can that project/Thy soul on its lone way' 'Browning/Lent by Messrs. Dowdeswell/160 New Bond Street' on an old label on the reverse--oil on canvas
30 x 19¾in. (76.2 x 50.2cm.)
Thy body at its rest
How far can that project
Thy soul on its lone way
signed 'E F BRICKDALE' lower right and inscribed 'Thy body at its rest/How far can that project/Thy soul on its lone way' 'Browning/Lent by Messrs. Dowdeswell/160 New Bond Street' on an old label on the reverse--oil on canvas
30 x 19¾in. (76.2 x 50.2cm.)
Exhibited
London, Doweleswell Galleries, June 1905, Such stuff as Dreams are Made of (second series), no. 26