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'Motherless', c1883, (c1902). Creator: Unknown.

'Motherless', c1883, (c1902). After a painting in the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool. Victorian graveyard scene: a recently widowed father tends his dead wife's grave while tenderly holding their child on his knee. Unusually for the time, this work depicts a working-class man as a nurturing parent. From The Nation's Pictures. A selection from the finest modern paintings in the public picture galleries of Great Britain, reproduced in colour. [Cassell and Company Ltd, London, c1902].

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Title:

'Motherless', c1883, (c1902). Creator: Unknown.

Caption:

'Motherless', c1883, (c1902). After a painting in the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool. Victorian graveyard scene: a recently widowed father tends his dead wife's grave while tenderly holding their child on his knee. Unusually for the time, this work depicts a working-class man as a nurturing parent. From The Nation's Pictures. A selection from the finest modern paintings in the public picture galleries of Great Britain, reproduced in colour. [Cassell and Company Ltd, London, c1902]

Personalities:

GRAVES (active 1940s)

Credit:

Album / Heritage Images / The Print Collector

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Image size:

3580 x 4632 px | 47.4 MB

Print size:

30.3 x 39.2 cm | 11.9 x 15.4 in (300 dpi)

Keywords:

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