Engraving
- Object Name:
- Engraving
- Object ID:
- 1918.014.02.21
- Creator:
- French, Frank (1850-1933)
- Place of Origin:
- Manchester, NH
- Date:
- circa 1890
- Description:
- Wood engraving, poem, by Frank French (1850-1933). One of 39 pages in Volume 2 of a two-volume set. Black ink on tissue paper. Vertical rectangle. Poem, surrounded by flowers and butterflies. Poem in lower left, reads " '-Many a perfume breathed / From plants that wake when / others sleep: / From timid buds that keep / Their odour to themselves / all day / But when the sunlight dies / away, / Let the delicious secret out / To every breeze that roams / about' ". Field in dusk beyond flowers, with trees and sky making up horizon. "F.French Sc." on leaf in lower right. "(overlaid G and H) / 87" also in lower right. Signed in pencil below image "Frank French / Sc.", right.
- Material:
- Paper
- Dimensions:
- H-7 W-4.4 inches
- Provenance:
- Purchased from Frank French in 1918.
- Credit Line:
- New Hampshire Historical Society Purchase
- People:
- French, Frank (1850-1933)
- Subjects:
- Wood engravings, Sky, Forests, Poems, Butterflies, Flowers
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