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"A woman perished in a snow-storm while passing over the Green Mountains in Vermont; she had an infant with her, who was found alive and well in the morning, carefully wrapped in the mother's clothing." ("Love in Death" from ''Good Words for 1862'')

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Love in Death (for "Good Words")   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Artist
Brothers Dalziel    wikidata:Q3089420 s:en:Portal:Brothers Dalziel
 
Brothers Dalziel
Alternative names
Dalziel Brothers
Authority file
artist QS:P170,Q3089420
After Frederick Walker  (1840–1875)  wikidata:Q5498976 s:en:Author:Frederick Walker
 
After Frederick Walker
Alternative names
Fred Walker; F. Walker; Frederick Walker the Elder
Description English painter, illustrator, drawer and visual artist
Date of birth/death 26 May 1840 Edit this at Wikidata 4 June 1875 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death London St Fillans
Work location
London Edit this at Wikidata
Authority file
artist QS:P170,Q4233718,P1877,Q5498976
Title
Love in Death (for "Good Words")
Description
Print; Prints
Date March 1862
date QS:P571,+1862-03-00T00:00:00Z/10
Medium Wood engraving on chine volant; proof
Dimensions

Image: 5 1/2 × 4 1/8 in. (14 × 10.4 cm)

Sheet: 8 1/16 in. × 6 in. (20.4 × 15.3 cm)
institution QS:P195,Q160236
Current location
Drawings and Prints
Accession number
2014.545.2
Credit line Gift of Donato Esposito, in memory of Dr. Lee MacCormick Edwards, 2014
Notes "This tragic image of a woman dressed in black, carrying a child through the snow, was created to illustrate 'Love in Death,' a poem published in the weekly periodical Good Words for 1862, pp. 184-85.... Walker exhibited a related painting, 'The Lost Path,' at the Royal Academy in 1863." (Met Museum)

Frederick Walker's illustration is an imaginative interpretation of an incident that became known as the "Stratton Mountain Tragedy." Just before Christmas, 1821, Harrison and Lucy Blake, with their 13-month-old daughter Rebecca, were returning to New York after visiting family in Marlboro, Vermont, when they encountered deep snow at nightfall while crossing the Green Mountains. Their horse refused to go on and they attempted to reach shelter on foot. Lucy carried little Rebecca; Harrison gave her his overcoat. Harrison was found frostbitten and hypothermic the next morning. Further search found Lucy frozen to death, and near her, Rebecca, alive and wrapped in the overcoat.
Source/Photographer

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/656829

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