Caption: Front cover
- Caption:
- Front cover
- Artist:
- Walker, Francis S.
- Materials:
- Paper (fiber material), Ink
- Techniques:
- Chromolithography
- Engraver:
- Photographic process
- Title of Publication:
- The deserted village
- Publisher:
- Thos. De La Rue and Co.
- Publication place:
- London
- Publication date:
- 1884
- Curator Comment:
- This is one of very many editions of Goldsmith's poem, first published in 1770. It remained popular throughout the nineteenth century and a number if illustrated editions were published.
- Note on artwork:
- Front cover illustration, a rustic scene in a gentle landscape with sheep and a young shepherd boy in the foreground waving to two women located in the middle ground, a village beyond. The costumes are intended to evoke the eighteenth-century date of the poem. A tree with slender trunk and branches rises behind the boy, providing a frame for the title and author's name. The image is printed in two colours, light green and light brown.