Illustration for 'Romola': 'You didn't think it was so pretty did you?'

Painting details

Title: Illustration for 'Romola': 'You didn't think it was so pretty did you?'
Date: 1862-63
Dimensions: x cm
Location: The Cornhill Magazine
Picture credit: Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea (Eliot, George, 'Romola', Smith, Elder, And Co., 1880, vol II, opposite title page)

Interpretation

'You didn't think it was so pretty did you?' (also known as 'Tessa and Her Baby') was first published in the 'Cornhill Magazine' in January 1863, (chapter XXXIII, illustrated opposite p.1).

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Provenance

Bibliography

  • Eliot, George, 'Romola', Smith Elder and Co., London, 1880, volume II, illustrated as frontispiece

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