Good-bye / W. Small ; Swain sc.

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William Small
1843-1929
Good-bye / W. Small ; Swain sc.
[London : sn, 1878]
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
1986.1000
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[London : s.n., 1878]
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From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
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Proof touched with white and inscribed with artist's directions to the engraver: The woman's dress is coursely engraved it should have been a delicate gray beside the dark figure of the boy. Split the lines on the woman's dress where I have marked and gray the dark in the background so that the woman's head will appear a black supported by a gray , not as you have made it all black together nearly.

Notes: 

Touched India paper proof of a wood engraving by Swain after an illustration by W. Small for a poem of the same title published in The Quiver, 1878, p. 305.

Summary: 

Illustration shows a young mother kissing her son good-bye as he departs for school.

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