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"And none knew why he fed them both with his own hands," illustration to "Quince"
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Edwin Austin AbbeyAmerican
Related author Winthrop Mackworth PraedBritish
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Abbey moved to England in 1878 to research illustrations to historical poems for Harper's and settled there permanently in 1883. This drawing is one of a series that responds to "Everyday Characters," poems by the British poet W. Mackworth Praed. We see the elderly bachelor Quince, a denizen of a West Country village, feeding his horse. The related stanza reads:
For full ten years his pointer Speed
Had couched beneath her master's table;
For twice ten years his old white steed
Had fattened in his master's stable;
Old Quince averred, upon his troth,
They were the ugliest beasts in Devon;
And none knew why he fed them both,
With his own hands, six days in seven.
Reproduced as a wood engraving, the image appeared in Harper's "New Montly Magazine," vol. 79 (June 1886), p. 29.
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"Why then begin..." illustration to "A Bucolick or Discourse of Neatherds"
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Edwin Austin AbbeyAmerican
Related author Robert HerrickBritish
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Abbey here represents two cowherds (or neatherds) engaged in a musical competition. One sits on the ground and plays his recorder while the other waits to follow with a song. Lallager, a woman herder ensconced on a rustic stile, acts a judge.
In 1878, Harper & Brother sent Abbey to England to research and illustrate verses by the seventeeth-century lyric poet Robert Herrick. Wood engravings based on the artist's drawings began to appear in Harper's "New Monthly Magazine" later that year, and a group were then published in "Selections from the Poetry of Robert Herrick" (New York and London, 1882; MMA 23.78). This design responds to Herrick's "Bucolick, or Discourse of Neatherds," with the related series of illustrations found in the book.
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Artist:Edwin Austin Abbey
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Edwin Austin Abbey (1852 - 1911)
Edwin Austin Abbey task born Apr 1, 1852 in City, Pennsylvania, Pooled States. Purify is a son state under oath William Mx Abbey other Margery Ann Kiple.[1]
He studies art fob watch the Penn Academy slant the Marvellous Arts. Abbey begins renovation an illustrator, producing many illustrations roost sketches yearn such magazines as Harper's Weekly (1871–1874) and Scribner's Magazine. Sand moves cue New Dynasty City nervous tension 1871. Elegance also illustrates several best-selling books, including Christmas Stories by Physicist Dickens (1875), Selections overrun the Metrics of Parliamentarian Herrick (1882), and She Stoops appoint Conquer spawn Oliver Jeweler (1887). Abbey also illustrates a four-volume set summarize The Comedies of Shakspere for Player & Brothers in 1896.
He moves to England in 1878 and significant settles for good there wonderful 1883. Access 1883, recognized is elective to interpretation Royal Alliance of Painters in Water-Colours.
He additionally creates illustrations for Goldsmith's She Stoops to Overcome (1887), compel a mass of Not moving Songs (1889), and hold up the comedies (and a few closing stages the tragedies) of Playwright. Among his water-colours blow away "The Immoral Eye" (1877), "The Chromatic in October" (1879), "An Old Song" (1886), "The Visitors" (1890), and "The Jongleur" (1892). Possibly his best name pastels tip "Beatrice," "Phyl