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Domestic scene, with a family receiving an elderly gentleman

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Mary Ellen Edwards
1839-ca. 1910

Domestic scene, with a family receiving an elderly gentleman

[London : s.n., 18--]
wood engraving
image: 132 x 208 mm; sheet: 220 x 285 mm
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
1986.884
Notes
Block signed with the artist's initials and the engraver's surname.
India paper proof of a wood engraving by Swain after an illustration by Mary Ellen Edwards for an unidentified publication.
Provenance

From the library of Gordon N. Ray.

Summary

Illustration shows a domestic interior where an older woman dressed in mourning and standing before a fireplace, her arm supported by a young man at her side, receives an elderly man with a cane; at left two young women look on while a third plays a piano accompanied by a young man; in the background at right, a small child clings to a seated woman.

Associated names
Swain, Joseph, 1820-1909, engraver.
Ray, Gordon Norton, 1915-1986, former owner.
Classification
Department
Century prints