The Children in the Wood by Charles Lucy 1865, A Quality print brought to you by At Art Prints, Size = A2 (594 x 420 mm 23.4 x 16.5 in)   unframed sent to you in a protective postal tube. 

A word of warmest praise is due to Mr Lucy for the artistic, natural and in every way appropriate manner in which he has illustrated this touching old ballad. There is something beautifully suggestive even in the relative positions of the children. The painter seems to have conceived that the boy, though the older and stronger of the two, was the first to succumb to fatigue and hunger; and that when he had fallen asleep, though still remaining "hand in hand" with his sister, then she lay down, resting on him, and entwined her arm with his--an attitude of sisterly love. The stately beech-trunks which form the background of the wood were probably studied in the Forest of Fontainebleau, near which the artist has lived and painted for many years. When the picture was exhibited in the British Institution last spring, of 1864 the critics were (for once) unanimous in eulogising it, although the class of subject and "cabinet" scale were unusual with the artist. Its success recalled a saying of Haydon's, that "a painter in small, when he paints in large, only enlarges his ignorance; but a painter in large, when he paints in small, compresses his knowledge."