5585 x 8978 px | 47,3 x 76 cm | 18,6 x 29,9 inches | 300dpi
Data acquisizione:
25 dicembre 1863
Ubicazione:
London, England, Great Britain, UK, Europe
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This vintage engraving shoes a woman standing by a fierplace in which a fire is blazing, most likely a coal fire or a log; two children sit on cushions on the floor, one with long hair and a dress, in boots, clutching her knees, and the other curly-haired, wrapped with a shawl, clutching a small bunch of holly.Ptobably the children are a girl and a voy. There are some items on the mantle-piece above the fire, and up high light shines in from a small barred window, suggesting a basement apartment. A hook over the mantlepiece is probably for roasting meat. The picture was probably commissioned for Good Words magazine of 1863 and was engraved by the Dalziel Brothers, the publishers of the magazine. The artist's signature reads T. Morten. In the original magazine from which the image was scanned, the illustration accompanied a long poem by Gerald Massey full of Victorian sentiment.- "To-night they sit with sadder, lonelier thoughts / Than ever; closer comes the Wolf of Want, / Snd darlier falls their shadow of Orphanhood". and indeed, in the far background at left, if you look very closely, is the head of a dying man in his bed.
