‘Danae and her baby at sea’, by Charles Kingsley (original) (raw)

Danae and her baby

Charles Kingsley

1856

Wood engraving by W.T. Green

6 x 4 inches, at widest and highest point

Kingsley’sThe Heroes, facing 3

Certainly the weakest drawing of the sequence, although it may have appealed to the juvenile taste of the nursery.

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