Wednesday, October 31, 2012

People in rustic dress gathered at Halloween in front of a fire...





People in rustic dress gathered at Halloween in front of a fire which lights the scene from the right, burning nuts and talking, including a couple embracing, a woman cuddling a child, a dog in the left foreground and a man smoking in front of a dresser stacked with plates; illustration to Cadell and Davies’ seventh edition of Currie’s ‘Works of Robert Burns’; after Stothard. 1814


The British Museum


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