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Victorian Periodical Wood Engravings / PL3334

The Small House at Allington

Artist: Millais, John Everett [1829-1896]



Series title: The Small House at Allington

1862 (year of production)
Wood engraving mounted on grey card

160 x 105 mm.
Purchase: Puttick and Simpson Auctioneers, Leicester Square, London 1924

Serial originally published in the Cornhill Magazine, Sept. 1862 - April 1864. Illustration depicts Lily Dale, Bell Dale, Adolphus Crosbie, Bernard Dale, Squire Dale and Dingles the gamekeeper, as in Chapter VII: '"Uncle," said Lily, "these men have shot nothing, and you cannot conceive how unhappy they are in consequence. It's all the fault of the naughty partridges." "There are plenty of partridges if they knew how to get them," said the squire.'





 
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