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Small Pearl (poem) by Margarete Ann Walters
Small Pearl (poem)
Margarete Ann Walters
Title
Small Pearl (poem)
Artist
Margarete Ann Walters
1924 - 1971 (biography)Year
c. 1950
Technique
color aquatint and etching with pen-and-ink border
Image Size
6 x 3 3/8" platemark
Signature
ink initialed in image, lower right
Edition Size
not stated
Annotations
Reference
Paper
heavy ivory wove
State
Publisher
Inventory ID
JUGE102
Price
$500.00
Description
Margarete Walters was a poet in addition to an artist. Here, she has incised this poem into the plate:
Small pearl / small pearl / my lord, / left on land / and found / not far / my lord / a band of lambs / oh call / oh call / the other stars / to hail / this night / the small one / sea stone / left on land.