print;
book
- Museum number
- 1960,0430.6
- Title
- Object: The Ballad of Hadji and Other Poems
- Description
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A book of poems on various subjects with several small vignettes illustrative of themes in the poems. 1887. The images as follows:
1. A putto crowned with laurels and seated astride a globe ringed by clouds, holding a death's head, stars and the moon above
2. Two fruit trees entwined with the motto 'Arbor Scientiae Arbor Vitae'
3. A mounted huntsman pursuing a wild boar
4. A dragon
5. A twist of flowers
6. A stone carved with two embracing children with butterflies above them
7. A mask hanging from a rope with a sword thrust through its mouth
8. Three ducks on a pond with rushes beyond
9. A twist of ribbons
10. A cockerel standing upon a post
11. Two swans upon a pond with the ripples forming a smiling face
12. Two hooded figures carrying a pole between them with a sign reading 'The End'
Etching, engraving and woodcut
- Production date
- 1887
- Dimensions
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Height: 160 millimetres (sheet)
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Width: 96 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Signed by Strang to the front cover
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: The Ballad of Hadji and Other Poems
- Acquisition date
- 1960
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1960,0430.6
