Robert Anning Bell - The Recitation - ''Tis I that Love's Columbus am'

Price Realized £1,000

signed and dated 'R. Am. Bell/.06' (upper right)
oil on canvas
22½ x 13¼ in. (57.1 x 33.6 cm.)

The quote comes from the third verse of The Prophet by Abraham Cowley (1618-1667), the 17th Century Royalist poet.