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Victorian Periodical Wood Engravings / PL1872

The Huntress of Armorica

Artist: Gray, Paul Mary [1842-1866]



Publication Title: Once a Week N.S. Vol.2
1866 (year of production)
Wood engraving mounted on grey card

175 x 120 mm.
Purchase: Puttick and Simpson Auctioneers, Leicester Square, London 1924

Depiction of Eian in'The Huntress of Armorica: A Tale of St Michael's Mount', poem by Eleanora L Hervey in Once a Week 1866, celebrating women's rights and derring-do “Thou heaved-up pyramid of Careg Luz, No match art thou for woman in her will!”





 
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