Sujet
Somebody's Coming, 1881. Creator: Held.
Légende
Somebody's Coming, 1881. 'The young lady at the drawing-room window, peeping out at the side edge of the Venetian blind, will not confess that she has any reason to expect Somebody, or Anybody, to call..about this hour of the day...a little acquaintance with the family affairs, such as an intimate friend of her parents might have gained from...observing...her demeanour towards the gentleman...at last evening's dinner-party, would throw some light upon the question...[something] has preoccupied Miss Alexandra's mind since breakfast-time, so that she cannot settle...but has been running into the garden and back, as we see by her parasol on the table, and has got herself rather flustered with heat or excitement, which accounts for the fan in her hand. Now she listens for a click of the gate, or a masculine step on the gravel-walk, and hearing this, for the fifth or sixth time before luncheon, though it may be only the butcher, the baker, or the grocer's man from the village, Miss Alexandra is again at the window...The fond and foolish heart, imagining that this expected interview, with a certain proposal for her acceptance, will be the crisis of her fate and the greatest concern of her whole future life, may be excused some degree of impatience'. From "Illustrated London News", 1881.
Crédit
Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector
Notre référence
HRM25A43_013
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Licence
Droits gérés
Format disponible
39,5Mo (4,5Mo) / 22,0cm x 45,0cm / 2596 x 5318 (300dpi)