Crippled Jane
Maker
(artist)
1836-1875
(engraver)
(publisher)
1836-1875
(engraver)
(publisher)
Title
Crippled Jane
Date of Production
1868
Medium
Wood engraving, black ink on paper
Dimensions
Height: 17.7 cm
Width: 13.2 cm
Width: 13.2 cm
Accession Number
G.1990.WL.4536.34
Mode of Acquisition
Witt Library, transfer, 1990
Credit
The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)
Copyright
Work in the public domain
Location
Not currently on display
Keywords
Label Text
Houghton represents a woman and her ailing daughter seated on the shaded steps of a house near the sea, sadly watching a line of children march off into a sunny landscape to play. The image first appeared in Home Thoughts and Home Scenes (1865), engraved by the Dalziel Brothers and published by Routledge, and illustrates a poem by Caroline Norton. The scholar Forrest Reid has pointed to unsettling elements in Houghton's images of children in Home Thoughts and Home Scenes. Works that at first glance seem to celebrate middle class domesticity often contain bizarre or disturbing details that point to darker levels of the human psyche as revealed in the play of children.
Provenance
previous owner: Witt, Robert (Sir)
Inscriptions
Inscription: In image, recto: lower left corner, black ink: "AH"; lower right corner, black ink: "DALZIEL".
Sheet, recto: centre of lower margin, black print: "35".
Stamp: Sheet, recto: centre of lower margin, blue ink stamp: "HAMPSTEAD PUBLIC LIBRARIES / LOCAL COLLECTION. / H. J. CORNISH COLLECTION. / 1928."
Stamp: Sheet, recto: centre of lower margin, blue ink stamp: "HAMPSTEAD PUBLIC LIBRARIES / LOCAL COLLECTION. / H. J. CORNISH COLLECTION. / 1928."
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