Joseph SWAIN (wood-engraver), Frederick WALKER (draughtsman)
Judith and Holofernes
(1862)
illustration facing p. 641 for The Adventures of Philip, on this way through the world by William Makepeace Thackeray, in The Cornhill Magazine, vol. 5 (January – June), published by Smith, Elder & Co., London, 1862

Medium
wood-engraving

Measurements
17.3 × 11.4 cm (image) 17.5 × 11.6 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.c.: SWAIN Sc
printed (diagonally) in ink (in image) l.r.: FW

Accession Number
2929.309-4

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 Religion and Mythology

Subjects (specific)
armchairs drunkenness illustrations (layout features) literary characters men (male humans) parlours sleeping women (female humans)

Movements
Victorian