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Drifting away

Drifting away
(1863)
illustration facing p. 681 for Romola by George Eliot in The Cornhill Magazine, published by Smith, Elder & Co., London, June 1863

Medium
wood-engraving
Measurements
10.4 × 15.7 cm (image) 10.6 × 16.0 cm (sheet)
Place/s of Execution
London, England
Catalogue/s Raisonné
Reid p. 207
Inscription
printed in ink (in image) l.r.: SWAIN.Sc
printed in ink below image l.c.: DRIFTING AWAY
Accession Number
1280.5-3
Departments
International Prints / International Prints and Drawings
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Gift of Percival Serle, 1927
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of the Joe White Bequest
Gallery location
Not on display
Subjects (general)
Human Figures Literary and Text Marines and Seascapes
Subjects (specific)
boats cloaks illustrations (layout features) literary characters mountains sailing sailing vessels women (female humans)
Movements
Pre-Raphaelite Victorian