Print of the Month - February 2023
Printed using Baxter's Patent Process and published by George Baxter in 1855 (Baxter’s Number 130). Courtney Lewis no.260.
After the oil painting by Thomas Brooks.
Produced from a steel plate and nine metal colour blocks.
Originally sold at 10s. 6d. Size 38 x 27.5 cm.
It is signed between the ladies’ dress and the door on the left, low down (the background is usually so dark it is difficult/impossible to read the signature), “Published May 19th, 1855, by G. Baxter, Proprietor & Patentee, London,” in three lines.
Together with "The Lovers’ Letter-box",
"The Day before Marriage", and
"The Fruit Girl of the Alps",
these four prints are George Baxter's four large lovely ladies.