There stood her mother, amid the group of children, hanging  over the washing tub

There stood her mother, amid the group of children, hanging over the washing tub. by Hubert von Herkomer, RA. This plate, the first in the illustrated serialisation of Thomas Hardy's Tess of the Durbervilles, appeared in the 4 July 1891 issue of the London Graphic. 4 July: double-page, horizontal: 29.5 cm high x 42 cm wide. Pp. 12-13, top of column 2 (installment begins on p. 11).

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