Joseph SWAIN (wood-engraver), Frederic LEIGHTON (draughtsman)
Will his eyes open?
(1863)
illustration facing p. 1 for Romola, by George Eliot in The Cornhill Magazine, vol. 8 (July–December), published by Smith, Elder & Co., London, July 1863

Medium
wood-engraving

Measurements
10.5 × 15.8 cm (image) 10.7 × 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

Accession Number
1280.3-3

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 Relationships and Interactions

Subjects (specific)
castles (fortifications) cloaks fathers illustrations (layout features) literary characters men (male humans) riverbanks strangulations

Movements
Pre-Raphaelite Victorian