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Frontispiece for "A Lover's Diary," by Gilbert Parker

Date1894

Illustration Citation"From A Lover's Diary" by Gilbert Parker, in McClure's Magazine, July 1894; reprinted in A Lover's Diary: Songs in Sequence, by Gilbert Parker (Cambridge and Chicago: Stone and Kimball, 1894).

MediumOil on canvas

Dimensions28 3/4 × 18 in. (73 × 45.7 cm)
frame: 32 1/4 × 22 in. (81.9 × 55.9 cm)

Credit LineGift of Edmund Clegg, Jr., 1978

Object number1978-669

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Label TextWhile Will Low was primarily a painter and muralist, his illustrations reflect the classical idealism of the American Renaissance style in vogue in the 1890s. This canvas was exhibited as a painting at the National Academy of Design in 1895 and won the Lotos Club award that year.

Gilber Parker was a Canadian-born novelist and politician, known for his dramatic and historic Canadian stories. A Lover's Diary was written when Parker was 23. He moved to England in 1889 and later served in Parliament.