English Hand Colored Engraving, Framed

Quietly, a woman in a yellow-green gown fans out her sleeves like a peacock

This hand colored engraving is from England, United Kingdom, and is dated 1780. It is ink on paper. The Finden brothers engraved biblical scenes after J.M.W. Turner for the 1836 book Landscape Illustrations of the Bible, and Turner relied on sketches by artists who had visited the Holy Lands. A small hand-colored figure in a long yellow-green dress with wide pink-edged flared sleeves, standing on a checkered floor. A balustrade and soft sky sit behind. It is set in a deep cream mat and a green and bronze-toned molded frame. It is 22.25 inches wide and 19.25 high.

Her sleeves arrived about three seconds before she did.