Alice Boyd (fl.1860-1897)

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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)

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

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