Background:

These Victorian children's prints are from the "The Good Children", a story portraying the kindness of a brother and sister to a blind man and his dog.

The children, Mary and John, meet this stranger on a path while playing near their home.  The children enlist the help of their mother in providing food and rest for the man and his dog, tired from a long journey.   As the stranger departs, he hears the voice of another traveler on the path - it is his son, Robert Dunne - a soldier returning home.

The chromolithographs for the prints were produced by the English printing firm Kronheim and Company, founded by Joseph Kronheim (1810-1896).    Kronheim came to England from Germany in the mid-1830s settling first in Edinburgh as an engraver and lithographer.  He then moved to London and started his own printing business in the mid-1840s.

Each print is provided with a full copy of the accompanying story.