Signed l.r.: Annie French an inscribed with lines from the poem:

O Yet, ere I descend into the Grave/May I a small house and a large garden have

Pen and ink with wash, 25.5 by 32 cm (10 by 12 ½ ins)

French’s exquisitely crafted Art Nouveau illustrations are amongst the finest of any artist associated with the Glasgow School of Art during its time under the influence of Charles Rennie Mackintosh. This evocative pastoral drawing is an illustration to verses from a poem by the great seventeenth-century poet Abraham Cowley.