Elizabeth Adela Stanhope Forbes (1859-1912)
Elizabeth Adela Stanhope Forbes (1859-1912)

"A sweet disorder in the dress/Kindles in clothes a wantonness;/A lawn about the shoulders thrown/Into a fine distraction" (Robert Herrick)

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Elizabeth Adela Stanhope Forbes (1859-1912)
"A sweet disorder in the dress/Kindles in clothes a wantonness;/A lawn about the shoulders thrown/Into a fine distraction" (Robert Herrick)
signed 'EAS FORBES.' (lower left), signed again and inscribed 'Elizabeth Stanhope Forbes/Higher Faugan. Newlyn. Penzance./"A sweet disorder in the dress/Kindles in clothes a wantonness;/A lawn around the shoulders thrown/Into a fine distraction;"/Herrick' (on a label attached to the backboard)
charcoal, watercolour and gouache
13 x 9 in. (35 x 23.5 cm.)
Executed circa 1904
Provenance
J. & W. Vokins, London.

Lot Essay

A little copse outside the Forbes's home at Higher Faugan, Newlyn, inspired the setting for a group of paintings and poetry illustrations depicting girls and children in the exotic woodlands of the Cornish countryside.
(see C. Fox, Stanhope Forbes and the Newlyn School, London, 1993, p.49).

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