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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 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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