3-070-821 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

"Morning" by L. Rossi, at the gallery of Messrs. A. Tooth and Sons, Haymarket, 1881. 'This picture, by the talented Italian artist, L. Rossi, has been admired by visitors to Mr. A. Tooth's Art Gallery, but was engraved for our front page by permission of the owner, Mr. Everard, some time ago. It presents to the reader's view a charming face of girlish childhood, the grace of which is rendered more piquant, as in some of Mr. Millais's pictures of similar subjects, by the quaint oddity of an old-fashioned head-dress, adorned with roses. Such a beaming countenance of youthful feminine loveliness, with such bright eyes full of joyous spirit, brings a delightful salutation in the fresh hour of "Morning," and a blessing for the whole of the day. We hope that the sight of it on our front page this week may cheer the heart of some reader, as a pleasant change from the scenes and figures of stern reality - not to speak of battles, shipwrecks, colliery explosions, and railway collisions, the miseries of Irish peasantry and misdeeds of the Land League, so often delineated by the artists of this Journal. We feel sure that the pretty little girl in this picture will be a welcome visitor wherever this Number is laid on the drawing-room table'. From "Illustrated London News", 1881.