Caption:
The Swallows (from Wayside Posies: Original Poems of the Country Life). Artist: After George John Pinwell (British, London 1842-1875 London). Dimensions: Image: 6 7/16 × 4 15/16 in. (16.4 × 12.5 cm)
Sheet: 9 1/2 × 7 5/8 in. (24.2 × 19.4 cm). Engraver: Dalziel Brothers (British, active 1839-1893). Publisher: George Routledge & Sons (London). Date: 1867.
A woman and young girl stand inside a barn, the child pointing up towards the rafters.Outside an open door, a boy holds a rope. The wood engraving was made for a book edited by Robert Buchanan, with original illustrations by G. J. Pinwell, J. W. North, and Frederick Walker, engraved by the Brothers Dalziel, and published by Routledge as a Fine Art gift book.