Romola : drawings to illustrate the novel by George Eliot, circa 1860.

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Romola : drawings to illustrate the novel by George Eliot, circa 1860.

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30 drawings in black and white chalk on blue-gray wove paper. 10 drawings are initial vignettes: vignette, p.7; ch.1, p.8; v.VI, p.145; v.VI, p. 289; v.VI, p.721; v.VII, p.1; v.VII, p.145; v.VII, p.281; v.VII, p. 417; v.VII, p. 553. 20 drawings are full-page illustrations: Suppose you let me look at myself; The blind scholar and his daughter; A recognition; The first kiss;The peasants' fair; A Florentine joke; The dying message; The escaped prisoner; Niccolo at work; The painted record; Coming home; You didn't think it was so pretty, did you?; Father, I will be guided; A supper in the Rucellai Gardens; The visible madonna; Monna Brigida's conversion; But will you help me?; Tessa at home; Will his eyes open?; and Drifting away.

30 drawings.

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