Illustration design for "The Economy of Human Life"

Frank Howard|Robert Dodsley

1834 · Watercolor · Drawings and Prints

A sad woman sits by a lake, a small dog at her feet. One of a group of twelve book illustration designs reproduced as an engraving in an 1834 edition of Robert Dodsley's "The Economy of Human Life," published in London John van Voorst. The image illustrates the text: "See how she droopeth her head; like the flower whose root is cut assunder, see how she fixeth her eyes upon the earth--see how they serve her to no purpose but weeping."

Artist

Frank Howard|Robert Dodsley

Date

1834

Medium

Watercolor

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1966