3-074-540 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

A Maid of Kent, 1883. 'The Garden of England, as Kentishmen have fondly called their native county, produces beautiful girls, beyond question, and its hop-bines are quite as beautiful as the vines of Southern Europe. This gentle maiden, who is, for aught we can tell, the squire's daughter, gracefully diverting herself amidst the hop-poles wreathed with that joyous climbing plant, now ripe for gathering, with its bright leaves, its delicate tendrils, and its valuable fruit, is "a Maid of Kent" worthy of the Artist's pencil. Her attire, indeed, might have been more appropriate to the scene, with a degree of rustic simplicity, which would not have been less elegant and ladylike; but she is a charming person, in the drawing-room or in the field'. From "Illustrated London News", 1883.