3-011-745 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

"Home Thoughts:" the Child among the Rocks, 1864. Illustration to a book of poetry: "Home Thoughts and Home Scenes", in original poems...blazing outside with scarlet and gold and sparkling inside with poetical gems and brilliant specimens of Illustrative talent, will make a right royal present. The Illustrations, by A. B. Houghton, engraved by the Brothers Dalziel, are excellent in quality and profuse in number. Mr. Houghton's children seem positively to live. The poetical accompaniment to our Engraving of "The Child Among the Rocks" is the composition of Dora Greenwell, and it will be seen from the opening lines: Underneath thy feet are rocks, and o'er thee Hang the heavy cliffs, &., how picture and poesy harmonise'. From "Illustrated London News", 1864.