North A Vesper Hymn {1897} NGV [DR]

North, John W. (1842-1924; English)
A Vesper Hymn
Pen and ink, black and white wash, on paper, 11.7 x 16.8 cm (sheet)
Purchased, 1897 (advice of Joseph Pennell)
National Gallery of Victoria (30-2)

Like North The Swallows {1897} NGV [DR], this drawing
was made for an engraving in Wayside Posies: Original Poems of the Country Life (1867).

Refs.

AR 1896, p.24; NGV 1905, p. 56 (II.Stawell Gallery, nos.74 or 75) [£15 for both drawings] 

For further details refer the entry on the other drawing bought in 1897