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Ford Madox Brown
1821-1893
The traveller / FMB.
[London : s.n., 1869?]
wood engraving, touched with white
image: 121 x 185 mm; sheet: 208 x 273 mm
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
1986.668
Notes
Touched proof of a wood engraving by Swain after Ford Madox Brown's drawing "The traveller"; engraved for publication in Once a week, Aug., 1869.
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscription at lower right: Retouched & presented to C.A. Howell with FMB's affect regards Sep/'67; inscription on verso: "The Traveller", from "Once a Week" Aug 1867. Watercolour Ford of the same subject Bottington has the latter.
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Print shows a traveller on horseback passing a village inn at nightfall, pursued by a dog. Two women, one of them nursing an infant, stand in the doorway of the establishment and watch him pass, while a little boy in sabats stands at right. A sign over the doorway reads: Nourriture pour homme & bête.
Associated names
Swain, Joseph, 1820-1909, engraver.
Howell, Charles Augustus, 1840?-1890, former owner.
Ray, Gordon Norton, 1915-1986, former owner.
Howell, Charles Augustus, 1840?-1890, former owner.
Ray, Gordon Norton, 1915-1986, former owner.
Bibliography
Reproduced in: The illustrator and the book in England from 1790 to 1914 / Gordon N. Ray. New York ; London : Oxford Univ. Pr., 1976, p. 112.
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Classification
Department
Century prints
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