Winter Life in Canada - a Skating Carnival at Ottawa.
Roberts Sc. Arthur Hopkins. [The Graphic] [n.d. c.1876] Wood engraving, sheet 340 x 505mm (13½ x 19¾"). Trimmed, laid on backing paper on one half and crease down the middle where folded as usual. Scene at an ice skating festival. Costumed ice skaters circle around a pole. Arthur Hopkins (1848–1930) was a landscape and genre painter and a skilled illustrator. A member of the Royal Watercolour Society, he exhibited frequently with it, the Royal Academy, and other major London institutions. His greatest success came from his illustration work, featured in the London News (1872–1898), The Graphic (1874–1876), and Punch (1893–1902), as well as in books by Thomas Hardy and Wilkie Collins.
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