The Fate of Persephone that fair field/Of Enna, where Proserpine, gathering flowers,/Herself a fairer flower, by gloomy Dis/Was gathered. (Paradise Lost, Book IV, lines 268-71) (1877) by Walter Crane (English, 1845 – 1915), signed, inscribed and indistinctly dated 'WALTER CRANE MDCCC/LXXVIII' (lower left) and signed and inscribed 'THE FATE OF PERSEPHONE/WALTER CRANE/13 HOLLAND ST./KENSINGTON.LONDON.W./ Proserpine in Enna gath'ring flowers./Herself a fairer flower by gloomy Dis/was gather'd Milton' (on the stretcher) and further inscribed '.../Herself a fairer Flower..gloomy Dis/Was gather'd/Walter Crane/Beaumont Lodge/Shepherds Bush/13 Holland Street' (on an old label attached to the stretcher), oil and tempera on canvas, 48¼ x 105 1/8 in. (122.5 x 267 cm.), Private Collection
