3-003-771 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

"Florizel and Per Dita", by C. R. Leslie, R.A., at the South Kensington Museum, 1861. Engraving from the '...well-known picture, by C. Leslie, R A ....which, under the title of "Florizel and Perdita," illustrates one of the most charming scenes in "The Winter's Tale," and is that in act iv., sc. 3, where Polixenes and Camillo in disguise listen to the unconscious philosophising of Perdita on her flowers. The skill and taste in the grouping of the five characters in the picture, which is apparent enough on the face of it, gains by a reference to the lines spoken by Perdita and Polixenes, and Florizel...'. From "Illustrated London News", 1861.