"RETURN OF PERSEPHONE." 1891[ToList]
STUDY IN COLOUR FOR "RETURN OF PERSEPHONE." 1891
By permission of Mrs. Stewart Hodgson[ToList]
FOOTNOTES:
[37] See Appendix, Vol. II., description in Preface to "Catalogue of the Leighton House Collection."
[38] An artist who was a great flower lover, when relating her experiences, maintained that it was in the revelation, to her perceptions, of the infinite perfection of the structure and form of one flower, that she had realised in her own nature a more intimate recognition and response to that of the Creator of the Infinite than had ever been elicited by any church services or creeds, or even, in fact, by the most sublime scenery. In one small flower she had found an epitome of the wonders and beauties of all creation, so focussed as to be grasped closely, and responded to, from the innermost intimate recesses of her nature with a joy unspeakable.
[39] See Appendix, Vol. II., Preface to "Catalogue of the Leighton House Collection."