The Farmer and Rain
The British Workman
Barnes’s journalistic image visualizes his subject as a recognisably real character who is also a moral type. Barnes’s design prefigures his bold illustrations for Hardy’s The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886).
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Scanned image and text by Simon Cooke
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