At the Threshold, from "Wayside Posies: Original Poems of the Country Life"
A woman stands next to a wooden block, a knife in one hand, a stick in the other, additional branches lying on the ground. She looks up at another woman who leans out the open window of a farmhouse, and is approached by a girl who holds a baby. A hen stands at left. The wood engraving was made for a book edited by Robert Buchanan, with original illustrations by G. J. Pinwell, J. W. North, and Frederick Walker, engraved by the Brothers Dalziel, and published by Routledge as a Fine Art gift book.
The preparatory pen-and-ink drawing for this print (a work of the same size and orientation) is in the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne. Pinwell later reworked the composition into a watercolor in 1872.
The preparatory pen-and-ink drawing for this print (a work of the same size and orientation) is in the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne. Pinwell later reworked the composition into a watercolor in 1872.
Artwork Details
- Title: At the Threshold, from "Wayside Posies: Original Poems of the Country Life"
- Artist: After George John Pinwell (British, London 1842–1875 London)
- Engraver: Dalziel Brothers (British, active 1839–93)
- Publisher: George Routledge & Sons, London
- Date: 1867
- Medium: Wood engraving
- Dimensions: Image: 6 7/16 × 5 1/16 in. (16.4 × 12.8 cm)
Sheet: 9 1/2 × 7 9/16 in. (24.2 × 19.2 cm) - Classification: Prints
- Credit Line: Anonymous Gift, 1925
- Object Number: 25.78.606
- Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints
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