Morning after the Storm. The husband's return... Le Matin devenu Calme. Le retour du mari

by William after William Redmore Bigg Ward

$850 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books

A lovely genre picture after the celebrated artist William Redmore Bigg which demonstrates familial love. In this excellent colour mezzotint, William Ward's fine engraving conveys the charm of Bigg's painting, and illustrates a sensibility and concern for familial warmth that has, to a definite degree, since been lost. Bigg's early Romantic narratives anticipate the good people in Dickens' novels for whom familial affection and constancy are ultimate values, unattainable

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