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Creator:
Print made by Arthyr Hayman, active 1850
after Edwin Austin Abbey, 1852–1911
Title:
How Heartsease Came First
Part Of:

Collective Title: Selections from the Poetry of Robert Herrick, with Drawings by Edwin A. Abbey

Date:
1880
Materials & Techniques:
Wood-engraving on medium, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 12 × 10 5/8 inches (30.5 × 27 cm), Image: 6 3/4 × 4 3/4 inches (17.1 × 12.1 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:

Inscribed in graphite, lower left: "E.A. Abbey Del. Arthur Hayman Sc."

Lettered above image, upper left: "How Heartsease came First."; inside image, lower left: "E.A. Abbey. 1880."; lower center: "Frollick Virgins once these were | Over-loving, living here | Being here their ends deny'd | Ranne for sweethearts mad, & dy'd. | Love in pitie of their teares, | And their losse in blooming yeares; | For their restlesse here spent houres | Gave them Heartsease turned | to flowers. | Rob: Herrick"

Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art; Yale University Art Gallery Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1984.21.359
Classification:
Prints
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Access:
Accessible in the Study Room [Request]
Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:20819
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