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wonderful antique botanical manuscript illustrated with original water colours dated 1823

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Paul Grabwinkler (1880-1946), Der Unerbittliche Freier, 1931

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Tin Can Forest

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Ph. laurapetresc

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Lola Dupre

Wolfgang after Ehrenstahl

12 x 16 inches

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The Weary Moon

by Edward Robert Hughes, 1911

Watercolour and bodycolour with gold and silver

22 cm x 14 cm

Private collection

Art thou pale for weariness,

Of climbing heaven and gazing on the earth,

Wandering companionless

Among the stars that have a different birth'.

Percy Bysshe Shelley, To The Moon

The present work is one of a group of watercolours by Hughes depicting the Roman Moon Goddess Diana in her form as Selene, an incarnation in which she took the form of the planet itself. In the present picture she is in her crescent shape in the moon's early phase of the lunar cycle surrounded by golden clouds and silvery stars.

Edward Robert Hughes RWS (5 November 1851 Clerkenwell London England – 23 April 1914 St Alban Hertfordshire England) was a British painter, who primarily worked in watercolours, but also produced a number of oil paintings. He was influenced by his uncle and artist, Arthur Hughes who was associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, and worked closely with one of the Brotherhood's founders, William Holman Hunt.