Featured Vintage 19th century print - The Elopement?

It looks more Regency than Victorian to me. Have you looked along the bottom edge? Often on prints & engravings
like this they often write: "From a painting by ...."

 

Funny - to me it looks like cover art for a Georgette Heyer novel; she wrote Regency romances in the 1930s.

 

It's actually one of a set of two. My parents have always had the set hanging in their home. The second one is called Forgiveness.

 

Yipe! Don't leave it at that! Who got forgiven? Her? Him? Papa?

 

Oh, my. Now I have to find the second one! Can you describe it? I did a search for the name and got a lot of religious pictures.

 

Bev, here's a Hallen & Weiner "Forgiven" that may??? be the same people.
https://www.ebth.com/items/1663593-framed-antique-hallen-weiner-chromolithograph-forgiven

Here is another on ebay that the seller has the artists' name wrong:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Antique-Pri...-1890-Delaware-Newspaper-Insert-/191726221713

--- Susan

 

Can't imagine how I missed this thread last March and April. That was back when I could still keep up with all of the discussions here. I'm glad it came back up to the top.

 

this is forgiven and yes I did make a slight mistake calling it forgiveness. As for what I think the story of the 2 pictures are. I've always believed the first took place right after the young couple leave the church, already having been married. I assumed this because the minister is already holding the closed bible, the couple seems to be walking away from the entrance not going towards it, and the couple is painted connected tightly to each other not cautiously keeping their distance in the presence of her father. Because the Bride is painted leaning towards her groom and not her father it sort of implies her new "primary male bond". Not to mention the title of Elopement has a tendency to imply that the actual eloping has already been completed. Also since the second painting shows the couple returning to her father for forgiveness, one would have to assume they have gone through with eloping and are now a married couple. Well that's what I've always seen anyway.

 

Good!

 

HA!!!!! Love it.....Bev......you NEED both!!!!!

 

Bev....did you see that there are TWO prints of "FORGIVEN"?? They are both VERY close, but not quite identical.....ONE is by Hallen & Weiner, the other I do not see a signature on......and can't remember where I saw it.....BUT (BIG BUT) I snagged a copy so you could see it......if interested!!!! Obviously they were both sold anyway.....

 

I found this...from the original engraving: Originally called "Too Late" and later published by Hallen & Weiner as "Elopement."
Equestrian Print, Heywood Hardy. A fine photogravure after the original painting by Heywood Hardy titled 'Too Late'. The 'romantic' print depicts a young couple leaving the church where they have just got married. Her distraught father and brother have arrived 'Too Late' to stop the wedding. The artist's signature is printed in the image at the lower right corner with the date 1885. Below the image to the left the artist is given credit for the original painting, followed by the title in the centre 'TOO LATE', and the name of the printers 'Goupil & Co.' to the right. Under the title it states 'From the original picture in the collection of John C. Holder, Esq. Printed in Paris _ London March 1886. Published by I.P. Mendoza, St. James's Gallery King St. St. James's.

 

The couple is John Fane Earl of Westmoreland and Sarah Childs, daughter of the English banker. It was a famous and very wild elopement. There are at least two in this series. The other features the couple reconciling with the daughter. They were lithographs, I believe. I will try to find the name of the artist.

 

The couple is John Fane Earl of Westmoreland and Sarah Childs, daughter of the English banker. It was a famous and very wild elopement. There are at least two in this series. The other features the couple reconciling with the daughter. They were lithographs, I believe. I will try to find the name of the artist.