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Robert Barnes
1840-1895
Alfred Hagart's household
[London : s.n., 1865?]
wood engraving
image: 158 x 114 mm; sheet: 270 x 171 mm
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
1986.866
Provenance:
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Bibliography:
Reproduced in: Illustrators of the eighteen sixties : an illustrated survey of the work of 58 British artists / Forrest Reid. New York : Dover, 1975, p. 259.
Inscription:
Touched proof, annotated in pencil by the artist with instructions and corrections for the wood engraver.
Notes:
Block signed with the artist's monogram and the engraver's name.
Proof of a wood engraving by Swain after an illustration by Robert Barnes for Alexander Smith's novel Alfred Hagart's household, originally published in the periodical Good words, 1865, VI, p. 208.
Summary:
Illustration shows a woman kneeling in the street with an unconscious little girl in her arms; she holds the fainting child's left hand in her own while a boy looks over her shoulder in concern.
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