The Return Home

by Edward Calvert

$1,750 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books · No longer available

A serene and compact masterpiece from the most inspired period of Calvert’s career, The Return Home distils the pastoral ideal into a miniature tableau of profound symbolic resonance. Edward Calvert's The Return Home belongs to the small group of visionary wood engravings he executed between 1827 and 1831 during his Shoreham period. In a format scarcely larger than a visiting-card, a bearded traveller, part shepherd, part biblical wayfarer, rides his mule along a

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