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Lot Essay
Published in the 1924 Christmas Edition of The London Illustrated News, the present watercolour portrays the Angel Gabriel greeting the Virgin Mary, at the moment the first rose bloomed.The poem introducing The Birth of the Rose in The London Illustrated News begins:
'The Rose is not only the emblem of England, the very soul of summer, and the sweetest of all the blooms in an English garden, but it is a flower interwoven with the mystic legends of our religion, and is closely associated with the Virgin Mary. The legend of the rose's birth is that when Gabriel saluted the Blessed Virgin, "the Rose wherein the Word Divine was made incarnate," her namesake first sprang from the earth, and twined itself into a sweet-scented arbour above her head.'
This was one of several illustrations in the publication by Brickdale, in response to the title: ‘Legends of the Flowers’.
'The Rose is not only the emblem of England, the very soul of summer, and the sweetest of all the blooms in an English garden, but it is a flower interwoven with the mystic legends of our religion, and is closely associated with the Virgin Mary. The legend of the rose's birth is that when Gabriel saluted the Blessed Virgin, "the Rose wherein the Word Divine was made incarnate," her namesake first sprang from the earth, and twined itself into a sweet-scented arbour above her head.'
This was one of several illustrations in the publication by Brickdale, in response to the title: ‘Legends of the Flowers’.