Print made by Arthyr Hayman, active 1850, British or American, How Heartsease Came First, 1880
- 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
- Export:
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