2-913-595 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

"Evangeline" - painted by John Absolon - from the Exhibition of the New Society of Scottish Painters in Water-colours, 1854. 'Mr. Absolon's contributions to the Exhibition of the New Water- Colour Society are numerous and varied...In female studies he displays equal taste and fancy; and one of the most pleasing of this class we have selected for engraving. It aptly illustrates the lines in one of Longfellow's poems: "As apart by the window she stood, with her hand in her lover's, Blushing Evangeline heard the words that her father had spoken"'. From "Illustrated London News", 1854.