John Dawson Watson
‘"Make haste home, children"’ (VPR001)
Title:
"Make haste home, children"
Illustrator:
Engraver:
Source Text:
Valérie de Gasparin, Countess,
'Vesper'
1862 in Good Words (T. Constable, Edinburgh: Strahan & Co., London: Strahan & Co.),
3, 1 (Jan 1862),
9–13
Size:
127 mm x 102 mm / 5"0 x 4"1
Illustration appears on:
p. 9
Illustration no.:
1
/ 2
DMVI Code:
VPR001
Notes:
Illustration to Part 1. Appears below title, and above start of first part. Top corners of border curved. Caption reads: ' "Make haste home, children; the soup is smoking on the table; Granny is rising from her spinning-wheel: Father is shouting for you! Quick! Quick!" ' Work subtitled 'By the Countess de Gasparin, Author of "The Near and Heavenly Horizons." ' Illustration title from contents page. The sketch is set in the Alps, near Mont Jura, but it is unclear whether in France or Switzerland.