Joseph Wolf
‘A Truant Hour’ (ESP070)
Title:
A Truant Hour
Illustrator:
Engraver:
Source Text:
Henry Alford,
'A Truant Hour. Bonn, July 8, 1847'
1847 in English Sacred Poetry (R. Clay & Co., 1862, London: Routledge & Co., 1862), 318–19
Size:
102 mm x 114 mm / 4"1 x 4"16
Illustration appears on:
p. 318
Illustration no.:
1
/ 1
DMVI Code:
ESP070
Notes:
Header to poem. Top border curved. Note appears below illustration: '*On the Alte Zoll, over the Rhine. The sweet odour of the grape-bloom filled the air; the heaven was tremendously reflected in the eddies of the river, as the realities of life in the dreams of the sleeper; and the clocks of the town were telling the hour of the night' (p. 318).