THE MAN WITH THE HOE. caption title ; Written after seeing Millet's world-famous painting of a brutalized toiler in the deep abyss of labor
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NP: np, nd copyright 1899, 1924 . Poetry broadside, 35 x 21 cm. Scattered foxing and spotting, browned on verso, old fold lines. Two short, closed tears at upper and lower margins, lower left corner chipped, not affecting text. Inscribed by Markham in ink at the top, For my friend, Audrey Ovington, with my western halloo, with a circle underneath. At the bottom signed by Markham, with the date 1931. The poem, originally written in 1898, has five stanza of
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