Title

Christmas Time - painted by W. Hemsley, 1857. Creator: Harvey Orrin Smith.

Caption

Christmas Time - painted by W. Hemsley, 1857. 'He volunteered, no doubt, with boyish bravado, to face the weather and steal - for nearly all the holly used at Christmas is stolen - the basketful of holly on his arm; and with his "comforter" over his mouth, and his trousers turned up to trudge through the snow...his spirits flag, and, instead of quickening his pace, we find him at last reduced to a halt, with the ruefully droll expression which Mr. Hemsley has so successfully caught. His naturally audacity is confessedly subdued in his pitifully knit brows, and he puffs, and blows, and inflates his cheeks to keep himself warm...We cannot, of course, reproduce all the merit of Mr. Hemsley's little picture, but, our Engraving being the same size as the original, we have had the better opportunity to do justice to the great point of the picture - the extremely humorous expression of the boy's face'. From "Illustrated London News", 1857.

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Reference

HRM23A76_465

Model release

NA

License type

Rights managed

Available size

19,5Mb (1,7Mb) / 7,3in x 10,3in / 2197 x 3097 (300dpi)

Keywords

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