3-070-804 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

May Flowers, from a painting by Chaplin, 1881. Engraving of a painting. 'The pretty little girl, in M. Chaplin's pleasing picture, has got as much as she can well carry of floral treasures. Her apron, or the skirt of her frock, and the bosom, with both arms holding masses of blossomy branches, or sprays of every flowering tree, shrub, and creeping plant in season, and the basket-like hat which hangs by its ribbons from her lifted elbow, are filled with the lovely produce of genial Spring. It is a rich booty that this fair and innocent depredator among the hedgerows and thickets has gathered, and is now bringing home in triumph - as declared by the light in her eyes and the gentle pride of her countenance and gesture - to decorate the bower where a gladsome birthday festival, happily falling in the sweet month of May, will be celebrated with a party of her youthful friends'. From "Illustrated London News", 1881.