Sujet

In Memory, from the picture by A. Stocks, in the Royal Academy Exhibition, 1883. Creator: Unknown.

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In Memory, from the picture by A. Stocks, in the Royal Academy Exhibition, 1883. Engraving of a painting. '"All are not taken! There are left behind Living belovèds, tender looks to bring, And make the daylight still a blessed thing". These lines, by Mrs. Browning, are appropriately appended to the title of this picture...The artist, Mr. Arthur Stocks, is making himself a reputation as a painter of incidents of humble life, generally of pathetic character. The touching character of the present subject finds its way straight to the heart. The poor bereaved labouring man is planting a geranium, from his own cottage garden, on the grave of her whose death is so fresh and green in his memory; and, doing so, he turns with yearning affection to print a kiss on the little human flower the dear lost wife has left him to tend - the "living beloved" the great strong hand supports so tenderly on his knee. The grave is but a lowly hillock of turf, but that bright geranium is at least as true a memento as the neighbouring long-neglected tombstone with sculptured urn, or the more ambitious but dilapidated architectural structure, overgrown with weeds. And the love of the strong man is not buried, but lives on, revived in the little image of the lost one'. From "Illustrated London News", 1883.

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Notre référence

HRM25A43_259

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

49,4Mo (5,2Mo) / 30,6cm x 40,4cm / 3618 x 4772 (300dpi)

Mots clés

nature people male child children man men family love father flower flowers plant plants arts infant baby babies class fatherhood parent art guy kissing British death infancy gardening Victorian century geraniums geranium cemetery grave graves graveyard Britain kiss kitsch newspapers press print literature concept trowel dad single parent B&W sentimental engraved engraving Working Class pelargonium 19th century poem poetry black & white black and white pelargoniums B W working-class Widower nineteenth century The Print Collector Illustrated London News maudlin pathetic social class wood engraving ILN William Biscombe Gardner newspaper Pathos Unknown Elizabeth Barrett Elizabeth Barrett Elizabeth Barrett Browning Browning Elizabeth Browning Arthur Stocks Stocks Arthur Gardner William Biscombe W Biscombe Gardner Gardner W. Biscombe 19th-century The Illustrated London News