About the Artwork
Memory of Clavering
1934
Frederick Landseer Maur Griggs
1876 - 1938
English
Unknown
Etching printed in black ink on laid paper
Plate: 7 × 9 1/2 inches (17.8 × 24.1 cm) Sheet: 7 1/4 × 9 1/2 inches (18.4 × 24.1 cm)
Prints
Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Feinberg
F1983.151
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Markings
Signed on plate, lower right: F.L.G. In pencil, lower right: FLGriggs
Inscribed on plate, lower left to lower right, in 4 columns of 4 lines each: A Rose as faire as euer saw the North | Grewe in a little Garden all alone | A sweeter flowre did Nature nere put forth | Nor fairer Garden yet was neuer knowne | The Maydens danc't about it morne & noone | And learned Bards of it their ditties made | The nimble ffairyes by the pale faced moone | Water'd the Roote & kiff'd her pretty shade | But welladaye the Gardner careles grewe | The maids & ffairyes both were kept awaye | And in a drought the Caterpillers threwe | Themselves upon the Budd & euery Spraye | God shield the stock | If heaven | send not supplyes | The ffairest Blossom of the Garden | dyes In pencil, on verso, lower left: a80891 Titled, lower right: Memory of Clavering | s. 39715- On mat, lower right: Recd 10-3-34 Dated on plate, lower right: 1934
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1983-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Comstock, Francis Adams. A Gothic Vision: F. L. Griggs and His Work. Boston, 1966, pp. 218-223, no. 51III (ill., p. 222).
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Frederick Landseer Maur Griggs, Memory of Clavering, 1934, etching printed in black ink on laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Feinberg, F1983.151.
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