Lot 23: Alice Boyd , 1823-1897 the witches going to market watercolour with bodycolour over pencil

Name: Alice Boyd , 1823-1897 the witches going to market watercolour with bodycolour over pencil
Brand: Sotheby's
SKU: mokuxbg5q3

Est: £6,000 GBP - £8,000 GBP

Sotheby'sLondon, United KingdomJuly 15, 2008

Item Overview

Description

signed with initials and dated 76 l.l. watercolour with bodycolour over pencil

Dimensions

measurements note 48 by 68.5 cm., 19 by 27 in.

Artist or Maker

Alice Boyd

Provenance

William Bell Scott;
Penkill Castle collection until 1992;
Christie's, 7 November 1997, lot 51;
private collection

Notes

PROPERTY OF A LADY
This watercolour illustrates the lines of Boyd's intimate friend William Bell Scott, The Witch's Ballad;

'O, I hae come from far away,
From a warm land far away,
A southern land across the sea,
With sailor-lads about the mast,
Merry and canny, and kind to me.

And I hae ben to yon town
To try my luck in yon town;
Nort and Mysie, Elspie too.
Right braw we were to pass the gate,
Wi' gowden clasps on girdles blue.

We walk'd abreast all up the street,
Into the market up the street:
Our hair with marigolds was wound
Our bodices with love-knots laced,
Our merchandise with tansy bound.

Nort had chickens, I had cocks,
Gamesome cocks, loud-crowing cocks:
Mysie ducks, and Elspie drakes,
For a wee groat or a poun:
We lost nae time wi'gives and takes.'

Auction Details

Victorian & Edwardian Art

Sotheby's

July 15, 2008, 12:00 PM GMT

34-35 New Bond Street, London, LDN, W1A 2AA, UK

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