Miss Jessamine's bath-cart, Ewing's Jackanapes, by Randolph Caldecott (original) (raw)

Miss Jessamine's bath-cart

Randolph Caldecott

c. 1883

Lithograph [?]

J. H. Ewing's Jackanapes, p. 44

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Caldecott here illustrates the sentimental scene in which Jackanape's faithful, old childhood pony Lollo draws Miss Jessamine's bath-cart across the green accompanied by the retired postman, who thinks the boy's death a terrible waste.

References

Ewing, Juiliana Horatia. Jackanapes. Brighton and London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge; New York: E. & J. B. Young, n. d.

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