3-038-977 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

"Raising the Wind," by J. Henderson, 1871. 'There are traits of genuine humour m the water-colour painting, by Mr. J. Henderson, which we engrave from the exhibition at the Gallery of the New British Institution...Nature is everywhere pretty nearly the same, and nature was evidently Mr. Henderson's model for the picture of this sea-urchin: it is plainly a study from the life. Who has not...made similar experiments in boatbuilding and nautical tactics? But whoever launched a toy-boat that did not come to grief?...In this case the boat appears to have capsized quite unaccountably, without the excuse of a gale, for the sails are wet, and without a flowing tide or breath of air they impede all progress. The boy thinks, however, he will be equal to the emergency, so he wades into the shallow water, and...essays in the midst of the dead calm to "raise the wind" from his own lungs. The eager intentness in his stooping attitude, his violently-distended cheeks, and the sympathetic action of his hand are all capitally true to nature'. From "Illustrated London News", 1871.