See lot . christopher Newall discusses and illustrates this example in his Victorian Watercolours, 1987. 'Eleanor Vere Boyle painted a series of small and minutely detailed watercolours from which engraved illustrations were made for Sarah Austin's The Story without an End. The strange and beautiful painting which illustrates the lines 'And a neglected Looking-Glass/And the Child cared nothing about the Looking-Glass' (Plate 63) offers a view of a broken glass amongst a curious assortment of dead leaves, clamering ivy and a peacock feather. Various microscopically observed insects crawl over the surface of the glass and the wings of a moth are seen camouflaged amongst the leaves. The reflection of amouse is seen in the glass. Realism is taken to such a degree of intensity in this watercolour that it arrives at a level of a fantasy