William Huggins
(1820 – 1884)

 

William Huggins  was an English artist, from Liverpool, who specialised in drawing animals.

 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Huggins_(animal_artist)

The Poet’s Vision, Canto I, Laon And Cythna (1852)
1852
oil on cardboard
34.9 by 22.2 cm
Private collection
Sold by Sotheby’s, London 15 December 2016

For in the air do I behold indeed
An eagle and a serpent wreathed in flight...
There was a woman, beautiful as morning,
Sitting beneath the rocks, upon the sand
Of the waste sea-fair as one flower adorning
An icy wilderness...
Upon the sea-mark a small boat did wait,
Fair as herself, like Love by Hope left desolate.' 

Percy Bysse Shelley, 'The Poet's Vision' from Laon and Cythna