Lot 73
  • 73

Browning, Robert

Estimate
3,000 - 5,000 USD
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Description

  • Browning, Robert
  • Autograph manuscript signed ("Robert Browning"), being a fair copy of the Song from "Pippa Passes"
  • innk and paper
1 page (5 7/8 x 4 in; 150 x 100 mm), June 28, 1888, brown ink on paper laid down on card, of 8 lines following  the note "Song from 'Pippa Passes', 1841"; formerly framed with light matt burn overall, ink smudged not affecting text.

Condition

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Catalogue Note

"God's in his heaven / All's right with the world". 

Likely the most famous lines by Browning, but certainly what the present poem is best remembered for. Relatively few Browning manuscripts survive.