DGR describes this subject for an unexecuted picture in a notebook entry that dates from approximately 1867, or perhaps slightly earlier. The entry was first printed
in the 1911 edition of DGR's Works, p. 615. The subject is taken from the final scene narrated in the traditional ballad “The Cruel Sister”, which has clear affinities with DGR's own “Sister Helen”.
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Works (1911)
Scholarly Commentary
Introduction
DGR describes this subject for an unexecuted picture in a notebook entry that dates from approximately 1867, or perhaps slightly earlier. The entry was first printed in the 1911 edition of DGR's Works, p. 615. The subject is taken from the final scene narrated in the traditional ballad “The Cruel Sister”, which has clear affinities with DGR's own “Sister Helen”.