The Queen of the Fishes: Plate 7

The Queen of the Fishes: Plate 7 by Lucien Pissarro. The image shows a book page with a drawing of a boy and a girl sitting under a tree. The drawing depicts the boy on the left and the girl on the right; both have fair skin and dark hair. The boy wears a dark green jacket with a hood over his head and an orange scarf around his neck. The girl wears a long orange dress. The girl's left hand rests on her lap and her right arm around the boy. The boy's hands are on his knees. The tree trunk is thick and curved, on the right. The tree's roots are visible above ground. The background shows grass, flowers, and a body of water with ripples. The drawing is bordered by a thin orange line and surrounded by green vines and flowers. The text below the drawing is in black, old English font and reads: "when he told her about the colonies of birds who built in his wide branches & what the winds said to him as they waved his boughs in play or in storm & how near his little topmost twigs were to the sun & how they could see the".

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Dimensions: 589 × 900 px
Museum Record: View original

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The Queen of the Fishes: Plate 7

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