A room with lighted fire, and a door into the open air, through which one sees, perhaps, the trees of a wood, and these trees should be painted in flat colour upon a gold or diapered sky. The walls are of one colour. The scene should have the effect of missal Painting. Mary, a woman of forty years or so, is grinding a quern....
W. B. Yeats - The Countess Cathleen
The Countess Cathleen
W. B. Yeats
179
Description
A room with lighted fire, and a door into the open air, through which one sees, perhaps, the trees of a wood, and these trees should be painted in flat colour upon a gold or diapered sky. The walls are of one colour. The scene should have the effect of missal Painting. Mary, a woman of forty years or so, is grinding a quern.