Walter Langley: 'O! for the touch of a vanish'd hand...'

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Date:1888

Description:Walter Langley (1852-1922) was a genre painter favouring fishing village scenes which are a far cry from his childhood in Irving Street, Edgbaston (now in Lee Bank). From 1882 he lived in Cornwall at Newlyn where he painted this 1888 watercolour which is called in full 'O! for the touch of a vanish'd hand And the sound of a voice that is still', relying not for the only time on Tennyson for the title. The painting now belongs to Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery.

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Paintings Lee Bank Langley, Walter Irving Street Fine Art Edgbaston 1837 - 1900 (Victorian Period)

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Donor ref:BMAG 1998v1.9 (74/8268)

Source: Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery

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