The Trollope Family This lithograph from a sketch taken from life made in Cincinnati in 1828, spotlights Mrs Trollope and her daughters. In the background Hervieu is at work at am immense easle making a sketch for which Henry Trollope is an unattractive model. Since Mrs Trollope was determined to let Americans see themselves as they appeared to the travellers, it was only to be expected that an American artist in turn would show her the Trollopes as some Americans saw them