Herbert Thomas Dicksee RE (1862-1942), after Frank Dicksee RA Herbert Thomas Dicksee RE (1862-1942), after Frank Dicksee RA ‘Memories’, a music soirée around a piano with a recumbent Irish Wolfhound in the foreground original etching, 1892, signed in pencil by both artists, artist's proof, with remarque two lines of music and lyric 'O for the touch of a vanished hand, and the sound of a voice that is still', published by C E Clifford & Co., London, edition limited to 400, on vellum, as exhibited at the Royal Academy 1892, number 1505, exhibited at The World’s Columbian Commission International Exhibition, Chicago, 1893 image 46.4 x 60.1cm Provenance: The Bryan Steele Collection.

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