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'Thoughts at Sunrise' by Nita Moncrieff, photograph, Library of Congress
A tree branch in the foreground, the silhouette of a city on the horizon.
According to the Pennells:
'Mrs. Lynedoch Moncrieff was composing the music for some verses of Owen Meredith's. Whistler said he would like to illustrate them. She told him they were about the lark.' 1
Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton (Owen Meredith) wrote the poem of idyllic love, 'Thoughts at Sunrise', published in The Poems of Owen Meredith (Honble. Robert Lytton) (1869), pp. 30-33. See 'Thoughts at Sunrise' by Nita Moncrieff [M.0833].
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'Thoughts at Sunrise' by Nita Moncrieff, photograph, Library of Congress
The distant view, though imaginary, looks like Venice.
Last updated: 22nd February 2021 by Margaret
