"Tis not from the window. That's a gig-lamp, to the best of my belief" by Arthur Hopkins. Plate 11. Hardy's The Return of the Native, which appeared serially in Belgravia, A Magazine of Fashion and Amusement (November 1878): Vol. 37, Frontispiece; horizontally mounted; vertically mounted; 6.375 x 4.312 inches.
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'I am very anxious to get there. Ah, there is a light from the window!'
'Tis not from the window. That's a gig-lamp, to the best of my belief.'
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