Potential covers for Standard Ebooks
A woman is shown climbing stairs, picking up her dress. She wears a bright red sash at her neck.
Source File: Here : 551 x 1200 pixels.
PD Proof : In Bradford Gallery Illustrated Catalog, page 38 (of PDF)
Comment: She looks to be a determined, clever, elegant woman in early middle-age. The source image is narrow and tall, this crop cuts off the lady’s feet and the stairs she is climbing up.
A man in a coat sits at a desk in the evening, lit by a small lamp, reading a book.
Source File: Here : 1957 x 2536 pixels.
PD Proof : In Das Museum Volume 10, plate 123
Comment: Might be good for a Charles Dickens or Wilkie Collins novel involving a scholar or student.
Continue reading “The Elegant Reader – Georg Friedrich Kersting”
A young woman lies in despair over the knees of an older woman who is comforting her. Outside a window, dawn is breaking.
Source File: Here : 1536 x 1108 pixels.
PD Proof : In National Gallery of British Art 1906 p.15
Comment: such a sad picture! Must be suitable for some mid-Victorian tragedy.
