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Harry Clarke RHA (1889 - 1931)

The Argent Revelry

The Argent Revelry
(Design for the Eve of St. Agnes Window)
Irish School
Pencil and watercolour on paper
30 x 20.9 cm
Gibson Fund Purchase from the artist, 1924
89-P

 

 

 

V.

At length burst in the argent revelry,
With plume, tiara, and all rich array,
Numerous as shadows haunting fairily
The brain, new stuff d, in youth, with triumphs gay
Of old romance. These let us wish away,
And turn, sole-thoughted, to one Lady there,
Whose heart had brooded, all that wintry day,
On love, and wing’d St. Agnes’ saintly care,
As she had heard old dames full many times declare.

"The Eve of St. Agnes"
John Keats