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William Small
1843-1929
Good-bye / W. Small ; Swain sc.
[London : s.n., 1878]
wood engraving
image: 159 x 128 mm; sheet: 320 x 250 mm
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
1986.1000
Notes
Touched India paper proof of a wood engraving by Swain after an illustration by W. Small for a poem of the same title published in The Quiver, 1878, p. 305.
Inscriptions/Markings
Proof touched with white and inscribed with artist's directions to the engraver: The woman's dress is coursely engraved it should have been a delicate gray beside the dark figure of the boy. Split the lines on the woman's dress where I have marked and gray the dark in the background so that the woman's head will appear a black supported by a gray , not as you have made it all black together nearly.
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Illustration shows a young mother kissing her son good-bye as he departs for school.
Associated names
Swain, Joseph, 1820-1909, engraver.
Ray, Gordon Norton, 1915-1986, former owner.
Ray, Gordon Norton, 1915-1986, former owner.
Artist
Classification
Department
Century prints
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