Mother and Child
Date1894
Artist
Charles Haslewood Shannon
(British painter and printmaker, 1863–1937)
MediumLithograph
Dimensionscomposition: 8 1/2 × 6 1/2 in. (21.6 × 16.5 cm)
sheet: 18 × 11 1/8 in. (45.7 × 28.3 cm)
sheet: 18 × 11 1/8 in. (45.7 × 28.3 cm)
Credit LineGift of Mark Samuels Lasner, 2021
Object number2021-40
On View
Not on viewClassificationsPRINT
Label TextThe clothing dominates the space in this intimate scene of a mother embracing her young child, the folds of her dress protectively engulfing the youngster. Charles Shannon enthusiastically participated in the revival of interest in printmaking that took place during the second half of the 19th-century.
