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Lucy Ashton
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(artist)
1802-1848
(printmaker)
1801-1860
(author)
1785-1848
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printed in black
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Width: 9.2 cm
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Inscription: Heath's Gall. 1838. //
Inscription: Engraved by T. A. Dean. //
Inscription: Lucy Ashton. //
Stamp: WITT / LIBRARY //
Label: LUCY ASHTON. / DRAWN BY J. WRIGHT. / LUCY ASHTON turned shivering from the casement. She / had watched the stars one by one sink beneath the heavy / cloud which, pall like, had spread over the sky till it / quenced even that last and lovely one with which, in a / moment of maiden fantasy, she had linked to her fate. / "For signs and for seasons are they," said the youthful / watcher, as she closed the lattice; "my light will soon be / hidden, my little hour soon be past." / She threw herself into the arm-chair beside the hearth, / and the light of the lamp fell upon her beautiful but / delicate face, from which the rose had long since departed; / the blue veins were singularly distinct on the clear temples, / and in the eye was that uncertain brightness which owes / not its lustre to health. Her pale golden hair was drawn / up in a knot at the top of her small and graceful head, and / the rich mass shone as we fancy shine the bright tresses of / an angel. / Vide Book of Beauty, 1833 //
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