Title

She never slumber'd in her pew', c1885, (1934).

Caption

'She never slumber'd in her pew', c1885, (1934). 'At church, in silks and satins new, With hoop of monstrous size, She never slumber'd in her pew, But when she shut her eyes'. Scene from Oliver Goldsmith's poem "An Elegy on the Glory of Her Sex, Mrs. Mary Blaize", illustrated by Randolph Caldecott. Published in "The Panjandrum Picture Book", by Randolph Caldecott. [Frederick Warne, London, 1934]

Date

1934

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Reference

HRM19F20_089

Model release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

52,1Mb (4,0Mb) / 15,2in x 13,3in / 4565 x 3990 (300dpi)

Keywords

female women woman people arts book sleep sleeping British color funny seating dress Victorian century congregation Britain asleep thirties literature character lady concept nursery rhyme pew Colour 19th century 1930s 18th century 20th century Eighteenth Century nineteenth century The Print Collector book illustration Randolph Caldecott Frederick Caldecott Randolph Frederick Warne & Co. Ltd Warne Mary Blaize