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An Almanac of Twelve Sports (Skating)
William Nicholson (English, 1872–1949)
1897
Medium/Technique
Color woodcut with hand coloring
Dimensions
Sheet: 40.4 x 34.2 cm (15 7/8 x 13 7/16 in.)
Image: 19.9 x 19.9 cm (7 13/16 x 7 13/16 in.)
Image: 19.9 x 19.9 cm (7 13/16 x 7 13/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Francis Bullard
Accession NumberM22343.12
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Kleinstück 040
DescriptionEntry for December in "An Almanac of Twelve Sports By William Nicholson with words by Rudyard Kipling", New York: R. H. Russell, 1898 (MFA Library rare book collection, *934 .735 .67 .1)
Accompanying text:
Skating.
Over the ice she flies
Perfect and poised and fair --
Stars in my true-love's eyes
Teach me to do and to dare!
Now will I fly as she flies...
woe for the stars that misled!
Stars that I saw in her eyes
Now do I see in my head!
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Accompanying text:
Skating.
Over the ice she flies
Perfect and poised and fair --
Stars in my true-love's eyes
Teach me to do and to dare!
Now will I fly as she flies...
woe for the stars that misled!
Stars that I saw in her eyes
Now do I see in my head!
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Signed
l.l. (in ink), "W. Nicholson"
ProvenancePDP Register entry: Date acquired, 6/1/1912 [exact to month]