Physical Object Description:
Young woman standing by pitcher, breasts bared. c.1928 Lithograph, printed in brown. Lettered with verse entitled: "The Well" on stone:
I said “the Well is deep”
There is always the Well
I heard the woodpeckers laugh
Saw the buds swell
Laughed too and lightly kissed you
Wells are deep
Profounder was the music […]
Lighter than my mirth
Kiss fairer than things of Earth
When ill of Loveliness love woke from sleep
“O mortal” said my soul behold the light
One tear and fragrant substance of delight
But you beheld it not and now weep
When I remember how my loving hand
As by the Well my spirit stood embraced
The Well remains, the well is deep
O proud my spirit is with beauty chased
Walking the […] that is now a waste
Mo [crossed out re] plumb [encircled] can measure
And no thought shall leap
The lone abyss where my spirit moves
No eye behold the blossom of its loves
When full of loneliness
They woke from sleep
Technique:
Lithograph
Dimensions:
42 x 30 cm
Accession Number:
1928,0310.55
Credit:
Presented by the Contemporary Art Society, 1928
Ownership history:
Purchased by Campbell Dodgson (1867-1948) for the Contemporary Art Society, with its Prints and Drawings Fund, 1919-28; presented to the Prints and Drawings Department, British Museum, London, 1928