Published:
ca. 1846.
Description:
1 drawing.
Credit:
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes:
Inlaid into bound leaf measuring 10 3/8 x 7 1/4 inches (264 x 185 mm).
Original drawing by Maclise for an illustration for the poem "'Twas One of Those Dreams ", in Thomas Moore's "Irish melodies" (London : Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1846), p. 176.
Bound into library's copy of Thomas Moore's "Irish melodies" (PML 145839), facing p. 176.
Provenance:
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary:
Drawing shows a young man seated, chin in hand, beside a river, apparently gazing up at a vision of naked nymph-like figures flying through the air above, as a boat occupied by a group of young men and women and a man blowing a bugle, passes by him on the water.
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