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KING (JESSIE M.)
'As I was Walking All Alane/I heard twa corbies makin' their/Mane...', [c.1933]

15 June 2016, 14:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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KING (JESSIE M.)

'As I was Walking All Alane/I heard twa corbies makin' their/Mane...', pen, ink and watercolour, on vellum, signed ('Jessie M. King') lower right, mounted, framed and glazed, image approximately 357 x 200mm., [c.1933]

Footnotes

Fine watercolour illustration of the traditional Scots dialect ballad "Twa' Corbies" (The Two Crows).

Literature: Colin White, The Enchanted World of Jessie M. King, 1989, illustrated in colour on p.110.

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