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Illuminated text study of excerpt from Christ, My Refuge, ... Image 1

Illuminated text study of excerpt from Christ, My Refuge, One of Seven Hymns by Mary Baker Eddy, illustrated by Violet Oakley [Boston: The trustees under the will of Mary Baker Eddy, 1939]

Date
c. 1939
Medium
Blue, brown, black ink and graphite on paper with guidelines in graphite
Credit Line
Gift of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 2015
Dimensions
19 x 12 1/2 in.

Description & Inscriptions

[verso in graphite]: from Poem by / Mary Baker Eddy / "Christ my Refuge"
Above an illustration of a young woman holding a document and standing in a church, Oakley illuminates the last lines of Eddy’s poem: My prayer, some daily good to do To Thine, for Thee; An offering pure of Love, whereto God leadeth me.

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