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And That I Love Is By Thee Only... Whom I Love Alone by Wayloon Chuang

And That I Love Is By Thee Only... Whom I Love Alone by Wayloon Chuang

And That I Love Is By Thee Only... Whom I Love Alone

Wayloon Chuang

Title

And That I Love Is By Thee Only... Whom I Love Alone

 
Artist

Wayloon Chuang

  1948 - PRESENT (biography)
Year
1972  
Technique
graphite drawing 
Image Size
17 5/8 x 23 3/4" image and paper size 
Signature
pencil, lower left 
Edition Size
 
Annotations
pencil dated after signature; pencil titled in lower right, followed by "E.B.B." (Elizabeth Barrett Browning) 
Reference
 
Paper
ivory wove 
State
 
Publisher
 
Inventory ID
22721 
Price
SOLD
Description

This drawing is dedicated to the last verse from Elizabeth Barrett Browning's 'Sonnets from the Portuguese, Sonnet 12', written between 1892-1897. The whole sonnet reads:

Indeed this very love which is my boast, And which, when rising up from breast to brow, Doth crown me with a ruby large enow To draw men's eyes and prove the inner cost, This love even, all my worth, to the uttermost, I should not love withal, unless that thou Hadst set me an example, shown me how, When first thine earnest eyes with mine were crossed, And love called love. And thus, I cannot speak Of love even, as a good thing of my own: Thy soul hath snatched up mine all faint and weak, And placed it by thee on a golden throne, – And that I love (O soul, we must be meek!) Is by thee only, whom I love alone.