Details
Jessie Marion King
None with her save a little Maid, a Novice
signed with monogram and inscribed as title; pen and black ink and watercolour on vellum
7 x 5¾in. (17.8 x 14.6mm)
None with her save a little Maid, a Novice
signed with monogram and inscribed as title; pen and black ink and watercolour on vellum
7 x 5¾in. (17.8 x 14.6mm)
Provenance
Miss Merle Taylor (Jessie M King and E A Taylor studio sale)
Sotheby's Belgravia, 21 June 1977, Lot 171
With the Fine Art Society, London
The drawing illustrated the opening lines of Tennyson's 'Guenevere' the penultimate 'book' of the Idylls of the King:
Queen Gueinevere had fled the court, and sat
There in the holly house of Almesbury
Weeping, none with her save a little maid,
A novice: one low light betwix them burn'd
Blurr'd by the creeping mist
Beneath a moon unseen albeit at full
The white mist, like a face-cloth to the face,
Clung to the dead earth, and the land was still
The drawing must date from the early 1900s, being comparable to the artist's illustration to editions of Sebastian Evans's High History of the Holy Grail (1903) and William Morris's Defence of Guenevere (1904)
Sotheby's Belgravia, 21 June 1977, Lot 171
With the Fine Art Society, London
The drawing illustrated the opening lines of Tennyson's 'Guenevere' the penultimate 'book' of the Idylls of the King:
Queen Gueinevere had fled the court, and sat
There in the holly house of Almesbury
Weeping, none with her save a little maid,
A novice: one low light betwix them burn'd
Blurr'd by the creeping mist
Beneath a moon unseen albeit at full
The white mist, like a face-cloth to the face,
Clung to the dead earth, and the land was still
The drawing must date from the early 1900s, being comparable to the artist's illustration to editions of Sebastian Evans's High History of the Holy Grail (1903) and William Morris's Defence of Guenevere (1904)