"By permission of Messrs Dowdeswell"

Source: Sparrow 43

Walter Sparrow approves of such "simple and expressive" titles as this one (42), which is typically allegorical in its evocation of the passage of time, and the human tendency to look back with nostalgia or regret to the winding steps already taken, even while opening the somewhat formidable door to the future.

Formatting and text by Jacqueline Banerjee

Other allegorical works by Brickdale

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