from 'All Around The Clock'. Illustrations by Harriet Mary Bennett *
(NB - what is that child sitting on?? a bear skin rug?...- just look at the tail...!)
Poems by Robert Mack**. Published by P. Dutton & Co. 1887
Print measures 5 by 7 inches. Good, clean condition as illustrated.
* Harriet Mary Bennett (born 1852). If you were asked to think of the archetypal Victorian picture of curly haired angelic children, the chances are you would conjure an image produced by Harriet Bennett. Despite her pictures and illustrations being hugely popular with publishers of late Victorian children’s books, little biographical detail of the artist survives other than that she was born in Islington, London, worked mostly from Forest Hill, also London and was a regular exhibitor at The Royal Academy between 1877 and 1892.
** Please note that the poem printed on the reverse of the image does not relate to the image depicted - these are book plates.