- Title:
- A Dialogue betwixt Himselfe and Mistresse Eliza Wheeler under the Name of Amarillis
- 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 × 9 1/2 inches (30.5 × 24.1 cm), Image: 6 3/8 × 4 3/4 inches (16.2 × 12.1 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed on verso in graphite, lower right: "IR 784/365"
Lettered above image, upper left: "Rob: Herrick"; upper center: "A DIALOGUE BETWIXT HIMSELFE & MISTRESSE ELIZA: WHEELER UNDER | Ye NAME OF AMARILLIS"; inside image, center left: "My dearest love, since thou wilt go, | And leave me heare behind thee; | For love or pitie let me know | The place where I may find thee | AMARIL | In country meadowes pearl'd with dew, | And set above with lillies; | There fillinge maunds with cowslips, ^you | May find your Amarillis. | HER: | What have the meades to do with thee, | Or with thy youthfull houres? | Live thou at court where thou mayst ^be | The queen of menne, not flowers. | Let country wenches make 'em fine | With poesies since 'tis fitter | For thee with richest jemmes to shine | And like ye flames to glitter. | AMARIL: | You set too high a rate upon | A shepherdesse so homely | HER | Believe it, dearest, ther's not one | I' th' court that's halfe so comly | I prithee stay AMARIL: I must away | Lets Kisse first then we'l sever | AMBO | And tho' we bid adi^eu today | Wee shall not part forever"; below image, lower left: "SMITHWICK & FRENCH SC.-"; lower right: "E.A. Abbey Sep. 12. 1880 ---"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art; Yale University Art Gallery Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1984.21.365
- Classification:
- Prints
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Access:
- Accessible in the Study Room [Request]
- Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:46288
- Export:
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Formerly Arthyr Hayman, active 1850, British or American, A Dialogue betwixt Himselfe and Mistresse Eliza Wheeler under the Name of Amarillis, 1880
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