Innocence., Hugues Fourau, circa 1854

A little girl shown half-length to front, with head tilted to look down to left, her right index finger on her lips, behind a lamb, eating grass mixed with flowers; in an oval; from a series of lithographs of children by desmaisons; in an oval; gold edges to sheet; after fourau; in volume half-bound in green cloth-covered boards and green leather, with gold tooling, lettered on spine 'french familiar subjects / in / lithography. / coloured. ' lithograph printed in black and gold, with hand-colouring. Date: circa 1854. Dimensions: height: 625 mm (24.60 in); width: 483 mm (19.01 in). Medium: paper. Collection: British Museum. Innocence. (BM 1854,0311.109)