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Title
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Grandmother and Child
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Date (Painted or Exhibited)
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1857
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Catalog Number
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132
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Catalog Description
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Which face is the prettier, that of the grandmother who has learnt life's lessons, or that of the baby who has not yet forgotten "the palace whence we came?"
Our birth is but a sleep and forgetting;
The soul that rises with us, our life's star,
Hath had elsewhere its setting,
And cometh from afar:
Not in entire forgetfulness
And not in utter nakedness,
But trailing clouds of glory, do we come
From God who is out home:
Heaven lies about us in our fancy! --Wordsworth
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Alt-Text
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An elderly woman and a baby sit at a table, smiling. The baby leans on a large bowl, while the woman lovingly holds the bowl, both gazing forward. A glass of water and a covered dish are also on the table.
