Figure descriptions
A smiling girl embraces a dog tightly with both of her arms. The girl and the dog
share a chair. The dog’s head peeks out from
between the girl’s arms and next to her face. It holds one of its front paws up. The
girl and dog occupy a room with a decorative
carpet, a side table with a vase of flowers, and a curtain. A piece of fabric is draped
over the back of the chair that the girl and
dog sit in. There is a single flower on the ground. Full-page illustration contained
within a double-ruled border.
Impressionistic landscape scenery with areas that resemble shrubs, hills, a tree,
and a river. This landscape is contained
within a heavyweight single-ruled border on the top and side edges and partway along
the bottom. The poem title overlaps partially
with the bottom-left corner of the landscape illustration. The title is in hand-drawn
lettering. A large bouquet of harebell flowers
and buds in a sharp realist style is superimposed on the landscape scenery at the
centre of the frame. It breaks the rectangular
frame at the top edge and ends half-way down the poem page. This illustration is a
headpiece that spans both
columns of poem text and descends approximately eleven lines down the centre line.
1/6 page.
Seaside landscape contained partially within a single-ruled border. At the right,
a woman and a man occupy a forested hillside
path. The woman stands and looks down at the man who kneels among the grasses. The
hillside path is decorated with dark shrubs and
deciduous trees. The path and surrounding grasses descend into the foreground, where
they become light as they break the lower
boundaries of the illustration’s rectangular frame. The background features seaside
cliffs and a vast body of water that appears to
blend partially with the skyline. A stem of harebell flowers and buds in a sharp realist
style lies behind the landscape scenery and
emerges in the bottom-left corner and at the centre-top. This illustration spans both
columns of poem text. 1/2 page.
