No Time for Laughing

All Resolutions

A boy and a girl with butterfly nets are running side by side among the grass after a swallowtail

But there is no time for laughing.

(Chapter 14.)

Artist

Name:: Frølich, Lorenz
Dates:: 1820-1908
Country:: Denmark

Illustration

Subject:: Narratives
Technique:: Wood Engraving
Engraver:: Matthis, Charles-Émile
Format:: Portrait (taller)
Source:: The New York Public Library, The Internet Archive

Book

Title:: A butterfly chase
Author:: Stahl, P.-J. (Pierre-Jules Hetzel)
Publisher:: New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1869
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A boy and a girl with butterfly nets run side by side among the grass, chasing a swallowtail—though the English translation has it as a peacock—which flies toward the viewer.

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