"...AND DISAPPEARED WITH A CURIOUS PERFUME AND MOST MELODIOUS TWANG." Louis le Brocquy HRHA (b.1916)
Signature: signed lower left; with poem inscribed in the right-hand margin; with poem printed and affixed verso Medium: pen and ink with gouache over pencil Dimensions: 11 by 17cm., 4.5 by 6.75in. Provenance: Provenance:Private Collector Gallery, Cork; Private collection Poem reads, "Anno 1670, not far from Cirencester, was an apparition; being demanded whether a good spirit or a bad? returned no answer, but disappeared with a curious perfume and most melodious t... twang. Mr. W. Lilly believes it was a fairy." John Aubery, Apparition, Miscellanies (1696) John Aubery (1626-1697) was an English antiquary, natural philosopher and writer. Miscellanies was a collection of twenty-one short chapters on supernatural phenomena and the occult. more
"...AND DISAPPEARED WITH A CURIOUS PERFUME AND MOST MELODIOUS TWANG." Louis le Brocquy HRHA (b.1916)
Signature: signed lower left; with poem inscribed in the right-hand margin; with poem printed and affixed verso Medium: pen and ink with gouache over pencil Dimensions: 11 by 17cm., 4.5 by 6.75in. Provenance: Provenance:Private Collector Gallery, Cork; Private collection Poem reads, "Anno 1670, not far from Cirencester, was an apparition; being demanded whether a good spirit or a bad? returned no answer, but disappeared with a curious perfume and most melodious t... twang. Mr. W. Lilly believes it was a fairy." John Aubery, Apparition, Miscellanies (1696) John Aubery (1626-1697) was an English antiquary, natural philosopher and writer. Miscellanies was a collection of twenty-one short chapters on supernatural phenomena and the occult. more
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