SKETCHES IN LONDON - A FLOWER GIRL 1872 Frank Holl VICTORIAN ENGRAVING

Original 11 3/4 inch x 8 7/8 inch Engraving titled SKETCHES IN LONDON - A FLOWER GIRL.

Illustration by Frank Holl (Francis Montague Holl) (1845 - 1888). An English painter and royal portraitist. Holl was born in London to family of noted engravers, being the son of Francis Holl ARA, as well as a nephew of William Holl the Younger and a grandson of William Holl the Elder, whose profession he originally intended to follow. In 1869 he was recruited as an artist by the wood-engraver and social reformer William Luson Thomas, to work on Thomas's newly founded newspaper, The Graphic.

From The Graphic June 22nd, 1872
The Graphic was a British weekly illustrated newspaper, first published on 4 December 1869 by William Luson Thomas's company Illustrated Newspapers Limited. It continued to be published weekly under this title until 23 April 1932 and then changed title to The National Graphic between 28 April and 14 July 1932; it then ceased publication, after 3,266 issues.

Page size 15 1/2 inch x 11 1/2 inch

The engraving is in very good condition. Printed text on the reverse.