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Print made by Frederick Landseer Maur Griggs, 1876–1938, British, Lanterns of Sarras, 1932

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Creator:

Print made by Frederick Landseer Maur Griggs, 1876–1938

Title:

Lanterns of Sarras

Date:

1932

Materials & Techniques:

Etching; 3rd state on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper

Dimensions:

Sheet: 12 7/8 × 9 inches (32.7 × 22.9 cm), Plate: 11 1/8 × 7 1/4 inches (28.3 × 18.4 cm), Image: 11 × 7 inches (27.9 × 17.8 cm)

Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:

Inscribed in graphite, lower left: "(26 proofs) 3rd state"; lower center; "Lanterns of Sarras"; lower right" "S. 38821"

Lettered below image, lower left: "Amid the blue smoke of gem-glassed cEiapels you shall find me, the white, | fire-wounded Flower, the Rose of Sarras. | Yea, the moths have eaten and fretted the aold cloths of tire Duke of York, | X lost is The scarlet cloak of the Cardinal Beaufort, tapers arc quenched & | rods of silver broken where once king Richard dined beneath the leopards : | But think you that any beautifulness is wasted with which Mine angels | have blessed the blue-eyed English, twining into stone an obscure dream | of Heaven, a crown of flinty spines about the Rose, a slim flame blessing | the Coronal of Thorns? | And York is forever the White Rose of Mary, & Lancaster is dipt in the | Precious Blood, though the high shrine that wasbuilt by the king of the | Romans be down at Hay les ,5 the abbey of Saint Mary be sha ttered now | in three-towered Eboracum.

Signed in graphite, lower right: "FL Griggs"

Credit Line:

Yale Center for British Art, The G. Allen Smith Collection, transfer from the Yale University Art Gallery

Copyright Status:

Accession Number:

B1994.4.298

Classification:

Prints

Collection:

Prints and Drawings

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Link:

https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:37470

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