Joseph SWAIN (wood-engraver), Frederick SANDYS (draughtsman)
From my window
(1861)
illustration p. 238 for the poem From My Window: Before sunset by Frederick H. Whymper Once a Week vol. 5 (June – December), published by Bradbury & Evans, London, 24 August 1861

Medium
wood-engraving

Measurements
12.9 × 8.5 cm (image) 13.2 × 8.8 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) u.l.: AFS (monogram)
printed in ink (in image) l.r.: SWAIN Sc.

Accession Number
2929.9-4

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 Interiors Literary and Text

Subjects (specific)
hairnets illustrations (layout features) literary characters waiting windows women (female humans)

Movements
Pre-Raphaelite Victorian