Title

The Little Scarecrow - painted by T. Dicksee - from the Exhibition of the British Institution,1857 Creator: Harvey Orrin Smith.

Caption

The Little Scarecrow - painted by T. Dicksee - from the Exhibition of the British Institution, 1857. Engraving of a painting. 'Mr. Dicksee must have been in the humour of Sterne when he conceived the subject of his picture...It is as oddly misleading and mystifying in title, as it is delightfully simple and unaffected in treatment. Such a charming little gem of rusticity might have been set in an idyl of Theocritus, a description by Thomson, or a stanza by Wordsworth. Lest our readers are somewhat incredulous, however, we will at once inform them that the "Scarecrow" is not a figure with a crownless hat and its coat buttoned at the back undergoing the Hindoo torture of holding the arms constantly at right angles with the body - and this, too, after having apparently undergone the amputation of both legs...It is simply a chubby little - but our Engraving...will afford the best explanation'. From "Illustrated London News", 1857.

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Reference

HRM23A76_236

Model release

NA

License type

Droits gérés

Available size

16.4Mo (1.7Mo) / 17.2cm x 24.0cm / 2027 x 2836 (300dpi)

Keywords

animal countryside agriculture field fields female people child children girl girls work job farming arts painting bird birds wheat art occupation British color wheatfield rustic farmland location century gallery Britain profession kitsch newspapers press crows scarecrow labourer labourers concept exhibition B&W full length full-length crow engraved engraving art gallery Colour 19th century black & white black and white B W farm hand farmhand white and black farm worker farmworker nineteenth century scaring rural The Print Collector agricultural worker child labour farm labourer Illustrated London News rural life wood engraving ILN newspaper Regionalism art centre Thomas Francis Dicksee Dicksee Thomas Francis 19th-century Harvey Orrin Smith Smith Harvey Orrin H. Orrin-Smith & Co Orrin-Smith H. & Co Orrin Smith Harvey Orrin-Smith Harvey Harvey Orrin-Smith agricultural labourer Frederick John Skill Skill Frederick John