An exciting spontaneous project! A few years ago I picked up a small framed print of an illustration from the late 1800s. Last night I decided to search the web for the inscription to see what I could find.
As my luck would have it, I found detailed information from the Archives at The British Museum. Evidently, it was part of a set of three images by printmaker William Henry Boucher. They are renderings of paintings by Walter Dendy Sadler from London in 1889 - etchings and drypoint on simile vellum.
I immediately went to work manually reconstructing a complete set of the images at archival resolution stealthy lifted and assembled from the Archive’s website and soon had all three renderings printed and framed in my home!
The works are titled, “Where the Widow Lives,” "Who is it?” and “The Widow at Home.” I think they turned out splendid!
