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 âThe Cruel Sisterâ, which has clear affinities with DGR's own âSister Helenâ.
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Works (1911)
Scholarly Commentary
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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 âThe Cruel Sisterâ, which has clear affinities with DGR's own âSister Helenâ.