Life's Journey-Finished Design1861 – 1862 Accession number: 1906P847 Pen and ink on paper. Width: 113 mm Height: 138 mm InformationAn almost finished design for the wood engraving illustrating George Wither's poem 'Life' Journey' in Robert Aris Willmott's anthology 'Sacred Poetry' (1863, p. 66). The poem is an allegory likeing 'the poet'd passage through life to the exploratory wanderings of a child' (Betty Elzea, 'Frederick Sandys 1829-1904: A Catalogue RaisonnĂ©,' p. 205). In Sandys's illustration a boy, investigating a bird's nest, has fallen out of a tree but is helped by his father.
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