Joseph SWAIN (wood-engraver), Frederic LEIGHTON (draughtsman)
Drifting away
(1863)
illustration facing p. 681 for Romola by George Eliot in The Cornhill Magazine, published by Smith, Elder & Co., London, June 1863

Medium
wood-engraving

Measurements
10.4 × 15.7 cm (image) 10.6 × 16.0 cm (sheet)

Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Gift of Percival Serle, 1927

Gallery location
Not on display

Artwork Details

Place/s of Execution
London, England

Catalogue/s Raisonné
Reid p. 207

Inscription
printed in ink (in image) l.r.: SWAIN.Sc
printed in ink below image l.c.: DRIFTING AWAY

Accession Number
1280.5-3

Departments
International Prints / International Prints and Drawings

This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of the Joe White Bequest

Subjects (general)
Human Figures Literary and Text Marines and Seascapes

Subjects (specific)
boats cloaks illustrations (layout features) literary characters mountains sailing sailing vessels women (female humans)

Movements
Pre-Raphaelite Victorian