And London looks so large, so barren and so wild.

"And London looks so large, so barren and so wild."

Unidentified illustrator

Photogravure

1912?

Little Dorrit.

8.9 cm wide by 13 cm high

From the Co-operative Publication Society Edition [PVA].

This rather poor drawing is one of many nineteenth-century works employing the Mariana theme — the contemplative, yearning, or despairing young woman at a window — popularized by Tennyson's "Mariana" [GPL]

Terry-Lynn Johnson Collection

References

Dickens, Charles. Works. Photogravure-Illustrated Edition. New York and London: Co-operative Publication Society, [n. d.].


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