Fairy Tales & Folklore
The Old Woman of the Mountain
Two men watch a distant woman crossing a rough mountainous landscape. One raises his hand towards the figure, who holds an arm above her head. Dense engraved lines set the dark figures against the open mountain slopes. The frontispiece is captioned The Old Woman of the Mountain. Its broad separation between the foreground witnesses and the distant figure gives the encounter an uncertain, watchful character. The complete engraved rectangle and its caption are retained. The title page credits the book illustrations to T. H. Thomas; this record preserves that book-level attribution without claiming a separately identified engraver.
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T. H. Thomas (book illustration credit). "The Old Woman of the Mountain" [editorial title]. In British Goblins, Wirt Sikes; illustrations by T. H. Thomas. 1880, Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington. Source scan leaf 2. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/british-goblins-plate-2
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Editorial title and description. Source details from the Library catalogue.
Full source scan, printed caption and nearby prose actually viewed. Complete image boundary, caption and visible signatures preserved. Crop from checksum-verified private R2 reader derivative; no recolouring or reconstruction.
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T. H. Thomas (book illustration credit). The Old Woman of the Mountain. British Goblins. Scan leaf 2. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/british-goblins-plate-2