WATERCOLOURS AND PRINTS
Briton Riviere
Details
Briton Riviere
Argus "And upon Argus came the death-fate drear etc"
signed and dated lower right Briton Riviere 1873, and extensively inscribed on a label on the reverse The Old Dog, whose fate had granted to behold his Lord, when twenty tedious years had rolled takes a last look, and having seen him dies, So closed for ever faithful Argus's eyes-Pope's Od. Bhxvii; watercolour
22¼ x 26½in. (56.5 x 67.4cm.)
Argus "And upon Argus came the death-fate drear etc"
signed and dated lower right Briton Riviere 1873, and extensively inscribed on a label on the reverse The Old Dog, whose fate had granted to behold his Lord, when twenty tedious years had rolled takes a last look, and having seen him dies, So closed for ever faithful Argus's eyes-Pope's Od. Bhxvii; watercolour
22¼ x 26½in. (56.5 x 67.4cm.)
Provenance
J & W Vokins, London
Exhibited
London, Royal Academy, Annual Exhibition 1873, No. 464