George Louis Palmella Busson Du Maurier

Second Thoughts

1866

Romantic hesitation becomes visual comedy through Du Maurier's skilled manipulation of narrative tension, showing his mastery of the single-image story format popular in Victorian periodicals.

Medium: wood engraving

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