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Alice Boyd (fl.1860-1897)
Taliessin the Bard hearing his deceased masters harp playing as it hung upon the wall, I hear again the sound of the sounds of the year
signed with monogram and dated 1873, and signed inscribed on original label on reverse,
watercolour heightened with white
26 x 37in. (66 x 94cm)
Taliessin the Bard hearing his deceased masters harp playing as it hung upon the wall, I hear again the sound of the sounds of the year
signed with monogram and dated 1873, and signed inscribed on original label on reverse,
watercolour heightened with white
26 x 37in. (66 x 94cm)
Literature
Hugh Taylor, 'Alice Boyd, A Woman of her Time', The Order of the Owl, Quarterly Journal of the Penkill Foudnation, vol.4, no. 2 1988
This picture illustrates the poem "Taliessin' in the last volumne of poetry to be published by Bell Scott during his lifetime, , A Poet's Harvest Home (1882). Taliessin was a semi-mythical Celtic bard who is said to have flourished in the mid sixth century
This picture illustrates the poem "Taliessin' in the last volumne of poetry to be published by Bell Scott during his lifetime, , A Poet's Harvest Home (1882). Taliessin was a semi-mythical Celtic bard who is said to have flourished in the mid sixth century