A girl looking through a window on a rainy day, disappointed that her walk outside will be cancelled. Photoengraving, 1857, after S. Anderson.

  • Anderson, Sophie, 1823-1903
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March 1857
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672765i
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A girl looking through a window on a rainy day, disappointed that her walk outside will be cancelled. Photoengraving, 1857, after S. Anderson. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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London : Published ... by the Photo-Galvano-Graphic Comp.y, March 1857.

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1 print : photoengraving ; platemark 30.3 x 22.7 cm.

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No walk today. Photographed by Lebbeus Colls from a painting by Mrs Anderson. Engraved on copper by voltaic electricity & printed in the ordinary manner.

References note

Bamber Gascoigne, How to identify prints, London 1986, chapter 36 (on the technique)
Sotheby's auction, A great British collection: the pictures collected by Sir David and Lady Scott, sold to benefit the Finnis Scott Foundation, London 19 November 2008, lot 96 ("The picture was presumably painted in the late 1850s")
William Schupbach, 'Unflowering fuchsia: the date of "No walk today"', Wellcome Library blog, 26 March 2009, archived at : https://wayback.archive-it.org/16107/20210314002102/http://blog.wellcomelibrary.org/2009/03/unflowering-fuchsia-the-date-of-no-walk-today/

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Wellcome Collection 672765i

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After: a painting by Sophie Anderson (Sotheby's op. cit.)

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