Another slow image, this depicts the quiet domesticity of an older couple maintaining their clock.
Dalziel after George John Pinwell, illustration for ‘The Old Couple and the Old Clock’, in A Round of Days: Described in Original Poems by Some of Our Most Celebrated Poets, and in Pictures by Eminent Artists (London: Routledge, 1866). Dalziel Archive Vol. XVIII (1863-1867), British Museum reg. no. 1913,0415.179, print no. 420. By Permission of the Trustees of The British Museum. All Rights Reserved © Sylph Editions, 2016