LOT DETAILS

Materials:

pencil and watercolour heightened with bodycolour, with scratching out

Measurements:

18.50 in. (47.00 cm.) (height) by 10.00 in. (25.40 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed with monogram (lower right) and inscribed '2/"Oft had I heard of Lucy Gray/And when I crossed the wild,/I chanced to see at break of day/The solitary child./No mate, no comrade Lucy knew;/She dwelt on a wide moor/-The sweetest thing that ever grew/Beside a human door!"/Wordsworth/Constance Phillott/25g Stanhope Street/N.W.' (on a label attached to the backing)