The Little Mourner - Finished Design1862 Accession number: 1906P834 Pen and ink on paper, laid down. Width: 108 mm Height: 139 mm InformationThis is the finished pen and ink design for an illustratration to accompany the sad poem 'The Little Mourner' by Henry Alford, published in Rev. Robert Aris Willmot's anthology 'English Sacred Poetry,' 1862 (p. 320). The design illustrated the moment when the little girl is asked what she is doing and replies that 'her love compels her to clear the snow off the graves of her dead parents and four sisters' (Betty Elzea, 'Frederick Sandys 1829-1904: A Catalogue Raisonné,' p. 208).
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