R. Knight's ornamental tailpiece "Married at Last" in Thomas Hardy's "Under the Greenwood Tree"

Ornamental tailpiece "Married at Last"

R. Knight

1878

Wood engraving

10 cm high by 10 cm wide

Sixteenth illustration for Hardy's Under the Greenwood Tree, dropped into the letterpress at the bottom of p. 342 (recto).

See below for passage illustrated and commentary.

Photograph, caption, and commentary by Philip V. Allingham

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Passage Illustrated

Dick and his bride took their departure, side by side in the excellent new spring-cart which the young tranter now possessed. The moon was just over the full, rendering any light from lamps or their own beauties quite unnecessary to the pair. They drove slowly along Wilderness Bottom, where the lane passed between two copses. Dick was talking to his companion. [Part the Fifth, "Conclusion," Chapter 2, "Under the Greenwood Tree," p. 341]

Bibliography

Hardy, Thomas. Under The Greenwood Tree. A Rural Painting of the Dutch School (1870). Il. R. Knight. London: Chatto and Windus, 1878.

Hardy, Thomas. Under The Greenwood Tree, or, The Mellstock Quire — A Rural Painting of the Dutch School (1872). Ed. Anna Winchcombe. Houndmills, Basingstoke, and London: Macmillan Education, 1978. [All citations from the 1878 Chatto and Windus edition have been checked against this following readily available paperback edition.]

Kay-Robinson, Denys. The Landscape of Thomas Hardy. Exeter: Webb and Bower, 1984.

Pinion, F. B. A Hardy Companion: A Guide to the Works of Thomas Hardy and Their Background. Trowbridge, Wiltshire, and Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1968, rpt. 1984.

Wright, Sarah Bird. Thomas Hardy A to Z: The Essential Reference to His Life and Work. New York: Facts On File, 2002.

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