Beautiful, detailed steel engraving from the picture by Alexander Johnston. (please note...the actual print is much sharper and clearer than the image shown above which has come out somewhat blurry).
There is, in this composition, enough to signify it's Scottish origin. The home circle here includes three generations: there are the aged patriarch and his wife, the latter apparently an invalid, and fast approaching the night of death; their son, the stalwart man in the prime of life, is reading, and perhaps expoundingñfor these Scottish peasants of the better class are frequently found "apt to teach"ñ a chapter in the Bible. Who knows what words of hope and comfort may reach the heart of the sick mother out of that sacred volume. His younger wife sits by endeavoring to hush into silence a wakeful bairn, whose elder brother is leaning on his grandsire's shoulder. The handsome bonnie lass may be a young daughter of the old couple, for she looks too old to stand in this relation to the younger man and woman.
Printed on heavyweight ivory/cream stock. Reverse side is blank.
Title (printed below image): The Sabbath
Publication: The Art Journal
Publication Year: 1862
Publisher: London: Virtue & Co., Ltd.
Approximate Page Size (in inches): 12.75 x 9
Approximate Image Size (in inches): 10 x 7.5
Condition: Excellent.
Library blind stamp* in margin area partially over the title does not detract from the beauty of this print.
*blind stamp: A colorless impression that is embossed on paper.
