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An attractive, framed copy of a scarce Cuala Press print/broadside with a hand-colored woodcut illustration with "BE" monogram. Size of (approx.) 40-50-year old frame is 15 x 15". Flat black 3/4" wood with glass front, wire hanger, corrugated cardboard backing & masking tape on back of frame. Size of colored print/broadside in frame is (approx.) 13 3/4 x 13 3/4"; size of woodcut image with black border is 10 x 7" (tall); finely hand-colored in watercolors, featuring light blue to yellowish sky & horizon with 3 birds in flight, distant mountain tops in black outline in clear blue, patchwork fields in black outline in shades of green & yellow, black, with a dark grove of evergreens in left; fore ground. Image shows a 6" nearly bare twisted tree in black outline & tan, piled rock fences in shades of gray, green grass, road & rock in black outline in front right. BE or BC/M E monogram in lower left supposedly associated with Bea Elvery (Beatrice Campbell), Lady Glenavy; Beatrice Moss Elvery (1863-1968). The Susan L. Mitchell text in woodcut upper case lettering reads: "Awhile we walk the World on its wide roads and narrow ways and they pass by, the countless shadowy groups of nights and days". Under this at left & right: Cuala Press Susan L. Mitchell. Paper shows slight age tanning, a small paper surface (abrasion-like) defect right above the word "its", 2 barely visible "lines" in upper right margin (paper defects, not damage). This is a very scarce Cuala Press item. Regarding the Cuala Press hand-colored prints: "Hand Coloured Prints. The long series of hand-colored prints was issued from 1906 onwards. Many of the earlier issues were from drawings by Jack B. Yeats. The final list of prints (c. 1939) was issued from Baggot Street and used at Palmerston Road with a paste-on address. This advertises 97 different prints. " ("The Dun Emer Press, Later The Cuala Press" By Liam Miller With a Preface by Michael B. Yeats. The Dolmen Press, Dublin, Ireland, 1973). For more on Susan L. Mitchell see: "Red-headed rebel: Susan L. Mitchell, poet and mystic of the Irish cultural renaissance" by Hilary Pyle, (& R. M. Kain, Susan L. Mitchell (Lewisburg, 1972); and for Lady Glenavy: Bowe, N Gordon The art of Beatrice Elvery, Lady Glenavy (1883-1970), Vol 11 (1995) 168 [Irish Arts Review] & in Gifford Lewis, "The Yeats Sisters and the Cuala Press", Irish Academic Press, Dublin, Ireland, 1994. Framed, colored print; sold as a decorative/illustrated item; sealed in a glass fronted frame. Weight: 2 lbs. Seller Inventory # ABE-104465832
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