Grandmother and Child

Title: Grandmother and Child
Artist: Meyer, of Bremen (Johann Georg Meyer aka Meyer von Bremen)
Type: oil on cardboard
Size (HxW, mm): 230 x 180
Framed : 390 x 330
Lent By: Sir Arthur Hobhouse
Catalog Number: 132
Catalog Page: 18
Catalog Description: 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 sould 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