DALZIEL BROTHERS (wood-engraver), Frederick SANDYS (draughtsman)
Sleep
(1863)
illustration facing p. 589 for a poem in Good Words, published by Strahan & Co., London and Edinburgh, 1863

Medium
wood-engraving

Measurements
15.0 × 11.3 cm (image) 15.2 × 11.5 cm (sheet)

Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Bequest of Percival Serle, 1952

Gallery location
Not on display

Artwork Details

Place/s of Execution
London, England

Inscription
printed in ink (in image) l.r.: AFS (monogram)

Accession Number
2929.2-4

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

Subjects (specific)
bedrooms illustrations (layout features) literary characters poetry repose (activity) sleepers (people by common activity) sleeping women (female humans)

Movements
Pre-Raphaelite Victorian