Leading to the Orchard

Details

Lilian Stannard (1884-1944)
Leading to the Orchard
signed 'Lilian Stannard' (lower left), inscribed and signed 'This is my own original work./There is no replica neither will/there be./Lilian Stannard' (upper centre, backboard)
pencil and watercolour with scratching out
15¾ x 11 7/8 in. (40 x 30.2 cm.)

Provenance

with Arthur Ackermann & Son, Chicago.

Special notice

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Lot Essay

The watercolour illustrates the following poem, the lines of which are engraved on the mount ''A GARDEN IS A LOVESOME THING, GOD WOT!/ROSE PLOT,/FRINGED POOL/FERN'D GROT -/THE VERIEST SCHOOL/OF PEACE; AND YET THE FOOL/CONTENDS THAT GOD IS NOT -/NOT GOD! IN GARDENS! WHEN THE EVE IS COOL?/NAY, BUT I HAVE A SIGN;/'TIS VERY SURE GOD WALKS IN MINE/THOMAS EDWARD BROWN''(lower centre, mount)

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