"The Sunday Walk," illustration to "Sally in Our Alley"
Edwin Austin Abbey American
Related author Henry Carey British
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Abbey moved to England in 1878 to research illustrations to historical poems for Harper's and settled there permanently in 1883. This is one of a series that responds to an eighteenth-century ballad by the British poet Henry Carey. The apprentice who narrates the poem has put on his Sunday best to escort the young woman he adores along a cobblestone street. The related stanza reads:
Of all the Days that’s in the Week,
I dearly love but one Day,
And that’s the Day that comes betwixt
A Saturday and Monday;
For then I’m drest, all in my best,
To walk abroad with SALLY;
She is the Darling of my Heart,
And she lives in our Alley.
Reproduced as a wood engraving, the image appeared in Harper's "New Montly Magazine," vol. 74 (December 1886), p. 60 and in the book "Old Songs, with Drawings by Edwin A. Abbey & Alfred Parsons," Harper & Brothers, 1889, p. 80.
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