HENRY HARLAND

BY HENRY HARLAND

This pen sketch shows, at the top of the page, Harland’s head and shoulders in a three quarter view looking right. The figure is roughed in with quick strokes and cross hatching. Trailing downwards on a diagonal are two attempts at Harland signing his name. Six handwritten lines of a poem, turned ninety degrees counter clockwise, and circled appear in the lower left of the page. Transcript: “A stunted rose bush bore a rose, A sad discoloured, misshaped flower. I plucked it in an idle hour To muse upon its woes – When lo! That mockery of bloom Was rich with rarest daintiest perfume! Henry Harland”

MLA citation:

Harland, Henry. Pen-and-ink sketch of Henry Harland on autograph manuscript poem by Harland, c. 1882. Mark Samuels Lasner Collection, University of Delaware Library, Museum and Press. Yellow Nineties 2.0, edited by Lorraine Janzen Kooistra, Ryerson University Centre for Digital Humanities, 2020. https://1890s.ca/harland_portrait