A young poor Irish woman, sadly mending fishing nets or textiles outside a stone cottage, is approached by a young man; inside the cottage, a woman is spinning. Engraving after F.W. Topham.

1800-1899

1 print : engraving, oval, en chine ; sheet 53 x 41.6 cm, platemark 55.5 x 44.5 cm

FWT 1849 Bears F.W. Topham's initials and the date within the painting

[State without letters].

Wellcome Collection 3140108i

F.W. Topham "soon took peasant life as a favourite—sometimes sentimental—subject, and in 1844 and 1845 he visited the west of Ireland with his fellow painters Frederick Goodall and Alfred Fripp. This led to further tours in Ireland in 1860 and 1862 and to Scotland and Snowdonia, where from 1852 he was a regular member of the artists' colony at Betws-y-coed"--Oxford dictionary of national biography