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Frederick Walker
1840-1875
Love in death / F.W. ; Dalziel sc.
[London : s.n., 1862?]
wood engraving
image: 142 x 106 mm; sheet: 168 x 125 mm
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
1986.1086
Notes
Title from publication.
Block signed with the artist's initials and the name of the engraver.
Proof on India paper of a wood engraving by Dalziel after an illustration by Frederick Walker for a poem of the same title by Dora Greenwell, published in Good words, v. 3, 1862, p. 185; the illustration ultimately served as a study for Walker's oil painting "The lost path" and the engraving was subsequently reproduced by the Dalziels and others with the title "A woman in the snow." Cf. The brothers Dalziel : a record of fifty years' work in conjunction with many of the most distinguished artists of the period, 1840-1890 ... London : Methuen and Co., 1901, p. 199.
Library's copy mounted on cardstock.
Block signed with the artist's initials and the name of the engraver.
Proof on India paper of a wood engraving by Dalziel after an illustration by Frederick Walker for a poem of the same title by Dora Greenwell, published in Good words, v. 3, 1862, p. 185; the illustration ultimately served as a study for Walker's oil painting "The lost path" and the engraving was subsequently reproduced by the Dalziels and others with the title "A woman in the snow." Cf. The brothers Dalziel : a record of fifty years' work in conjunction with many of the most distinguished artists of the period, 1840-1890 ... London : Methuen and Co., 1901, p. 199.
Library's copy mounted on cardstock.
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Illustration of a woman walking in the snow with her head bowed and a baby in her arms.
Associated names
Ray, Gordon Norton, 1915-1986, former owner.
Artist
Classification
Department
Century prints
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