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Victorian Periodical Wood Engravings / PL3630

Far from the Madding Crowd: 'Her Tears Fell Fast'

Artist: Paterson, Helen [1848-1926]



Series title: Far from the Madding Crowd (Plate 10)

1874 (year of production)
Wood engraving mounted on grey card

110 x 165 mm.
Purchase: Puttick and Simpson Auctioneers, Leicester Square, London 1924

Illustration of a passage in the middle of Chapter 43: "Her tears fell fast beside the unconscious pair: tears of a complicated origin, of a nature indescribable, almost indefinable except as other than those of simple sorrow" (p. 494).



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