Lycius, Look Back, and Be Some Pity Shown

Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.

Quick Overview

Artist: Will Hicock Low / American, 1853-1932
Date: 1885
Medium: Gray and white gouache, with touches of brown gouache, on cream wood-pulp laminate board
Dimensions: 16.5 × 34.8 cm (6 1/2 × 13 3/4 in.)
Type: Drawing
Classification: drawings (visual works)
Place: United States
Department: Prints and Drawings
Credit line: Gift of Elizabeth Hammond Stickney
Accession no.: 1902.188

Dedication (Odes and Sonnets)
Will Hicock Low
1887 · Painting
Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00000955
Sonnet: "When I have fears that I may cease to be"
Will Hicock Low
1887 · Painting
Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00000956
Ode on Melancholy
Will Hicock Low
1887 · Painting
Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00000957
Ode: "Bards of passion and of mirth"
Will Hicock Low
1887 · Painting
Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00000958