Lot Essay
The title of this painting is taken from Shakespeare's Cymbeline, Act 2, Scene 2.
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Aurora Hark, hark! The lark at heaven's gate sings, And Phoebus 'gins arise, His steeds to water at those springs On chaliced flowers that lies; And winking Mary-buds begin To ope their golden eyes: With every thing that pretty is, My lady sweet, arise: Arise, arise
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William Maw Egley (1826-1916)
Aurora
Hark, hark! The lark at heaven's gate sings,
And Phoebus 'gins arise,
His steeds to water at those springs
On chaliced flowers that lies;
And winking Mary-buds begin
To ope their golden eyes:
With every thing that pretty is,
My lady sweet, arise:
Arise, arise
signed with monogram and dated '1863' (centre right) and inscribed as title (on the reverse)
oil on canvas, in a painted oval
11 x 9¾ in. (27.8 x 24.7 cm.)
Aurora
Hark, hark! The lark at heaven's gate sings,
And Phoebus 'gins arise,
His steeds to water at those springs
On chaliced flowers that lies;
And winking Mary-buds begin
To ope their golden eyes:
With every thing that pretty is,
My lady sweet, arise:
Arise, arise
signed with monogram and dated '1863' (centre right) and inscribed as title (on the reverse)
oil on canvas, in a painted oval
11 x 9¾ in. (27.8 x 24.7 cm.)
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