Description

Copper engraving, first edition. Signed in plate.

Formerly in the collection of the English wood engraver Reynolds Stone, gifted by the publisher Sampson Low, Marston and Company.

It is as if we are looking into the Garden of Eden
before the Fall, or are eavesdropping upon the Song
of Songs … Asin all his other visionaryworks,Calvert
in ‘e Bride’ lovingly works overeach detail, giving
it due importance, yet keeping it within the general
composition without obtrusion. – Raymond Lister, Edward Calvert, 1962.