Love in Death, for "Good Words"

A woman in a dark hooded cloak bends forward, clutching a bundle against her body as wind drives snow across a wild, hatched landscape. Fine parallel lines give the snow, sky and fabric their texture, and a sprig of bare branches lies in the foreground.

Look closer: A small monogram 'F W' sits near the lower right corner, beside the branches.

Artist

Frederick Walker

Date

March 1862

Medium

Wood engraving on chine volant; proof

Source

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Size

2665 × 3465 px

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of Donato Esposito, in memory of Dr. Lee MacCormick Edwards, 2014