Clasped him in her arms

Charles Edmund Brock

Photomechanical reproduction of pen and ink drawing

5 x 3 ¼ inches

Charles Kingsley, Westward Ho!, facing 437

Another of Brock’s dynamic compositions, this time illustrating the climactic moment when one of the captured natives pulls the Spanish officer, the ‘ruffian’ (437), over the cliff. Brock typically combines intense action with closely-observed verisimilitude.

Scanned image and text by Simon Cooke.

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