The three illustrations are shown here first in just indian ink and then was the submitted image with added colour.
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'...when she was found one morning by her cousin Edmund, the youngest of the sons, sitting crying on the attic stairs.'
Indian ink and digital colour, 156 x 234mm, 2017
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'...she tripped off to the instrument, leaving Edmund looking after her in an ecstasy of admiration of all her many virtues'
Indian ink and digital colour, 156 x 234mm, 2017
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'She played accordingly; happy to have a new listener, and a listener who seemed so much obliged, so full of wonder at the performance, and who shewed herself not wanting in taste.'
Indian ink and digital colour, 156 x 234mm, 2017
Below is the submitted cover design following the in-house style requested by the brief. Afterwards I played around with the image altering the background and colour scheme, which is also included here.
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