Beautiful, detailed steel engraving is a collaborative effort by William Frith, Thomas Creswick, and Richard Ansdell.
Here we see a young woman who has left the home of her youth to try her fortune in the great metropolis seen in the distance. Her pathway seems to have been through a wood, and she halts at the stile on the outskirts, where a view is obtained of the city lying not many miles beyond. And now begins the waking dream of what the future may be. The dog was tied up, but has broken away, as the piece of cord hanging from his neck tells us, and has followed, perhaps unseen until now, his master's child. He stands gazing up into her face, as if he would turn her back again to their home, by his earnest, though silent appeal to their mutual attachment and the memories of the past.
Printed on heavyweight ivory/cream stock. Reverse side is blank.
Title (printed below image): A Dream of the Future
Publication: The Art Journal
Publication Year: 1865
Publisher: London: Virtue & Co., Ltd.
Approximate Page Size (in inches): 9 x 12.75
Approximate Image Size (in inches): 7.5 x 9.5
Condition: Excellent.
Library blind stamp* in image area does not detract from the beauty of this print.
*blind stamp: A colorless impression that is embossed on paper.
