The Keepsake Postcard

This postcard depicts Keepsake. The colourful painting is filled with Arts and Crafts motifs, popular with the Birmingham School of Art at this time. It is based on a poem by Rossetti and was first shown with this quotation: 'Then stepped a damsel to her side, and spoke and needs must weep: 'For his sake, lady, if he died, he prayed of thee to keep this staff and scrip'. [shortcode] [short-description]

• Artist: Kate Elizabeth Bunce
• Artwork: The Keepsake
• Date of Work: 1901

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