Maidens with Rose Garlands - Original Hand-Colored Engraving

Original hand-colored engraving of classicizing subject: two young women in tunics dress the Ionic columns of a temple with garlands of roses, one up a ladder and the other seated on the ground beside the flower basket. A vertical decorative composition, with the reference E-59 (a) at the foot.

Medium: Copper engraving, hand-colored.
Artist / after: According to the old record, after a work by Sir Edward John Poynter.
Date: 19th century.
Dimensions: 9.1 x 19.3 in (23 x 49 cm).
Condition: Very good. Fresh color and clean paper; mounted in a mat.