Greeting a New Day

A lovely lady drawn in front of the shadows greats a new day in this vintage drawing of women by William James Neatby (1860-1910). The beautiful two-part painting was used to illustrate John Keat’s poem Endymion –

As she spake, into her face there came
Light, as reflected from a silver flame,
…In her eyes a brighter day
Dawn’d blue and full of love.

Greeting a New Day

This image is copyright free and in the public domain anywhere that extends copyrights 70 years after death or at least 120 years after publication when the original illustrator is unknown.