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

And London looks so large, so barren and so wild

Unidentified illustrator

1912?

Photogravure

8.9 cm wide 13 cm high

Illustration for Dickens's Little Dorrit in the Co-operative Publication Society Edition

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

Scanned image and text by Philip V. Allingham