Sidney Harold Meteyard

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Description

Sidney Harold Meteyard
Lucifer and His Angels
signed with monogram (lower right)
pencil, watercolor and gouache on artist's board
18 1/2 by 11 3/8 in.
47 by 29 cm

Provenance

Sale, Sotheby's, London, June 21, 1987, lot 64, illustrated

Literature

H.W. Longfellow, The Golden Legend, Hodder and Stoughton, London 1910, illustrated opposite p. 1

Catalogue Note

Meteyard painted this work as an illustration for Longfellow's The Golden Legend, published in 1910. The following caption accompanied the illustration:

"The spire of Strasbourg Cathedral. Night and Storm. Lucifer, with the Powers of Air, trying to tear down the cross."