Love in Death, for "Good Words"

Dalziel Brothers|Frederick Walker|Dora Greenwell

March 1862 · Wood engraving on chine volant; proof · Drawings and Prints

This tragic image of a woman dressed in black, carrying a child through the snow, was created to illustrate "Love and Death," a poem published in the weekly periodical "Good Words for 1862, pp. 184-85 (see 65.629.3(1.13)), introduced by these words, "A woman perished in a snow-storm while passing over the Green Mountains in Vermont; she had an infant with her, who was found alive and well in the morning, carefully wrapped in the mother's clothing."Walker exhibited a related painting, "The Lost Path," at the Royal Academy in 1863 and the the Museum also has a proof of the wood engraving (2014.545.2).

Artist

Dalziel Brothers|Frederick Walker|Dora Greenwell

Date

March 1862

Medium

Wood engraving on chine volant; proof

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

Gift of Donato Esposito, in memory of Dr. Lee MacCormick Edwards, 2014