Friday, January 14, 2011

Emily Mary Osborn - Nameless and Friendless, 1857





http://www.magnoliabox.com/art/110200/Nameless_and_Friendless_1857

3 comments:

  1. So much is happening in the outskirts of the picture, it took my eye a few moments to reach the subject - part of the point and clever of the artist.

    Lucy

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  2. I suspect this was one of the great fears of the middle class Victorian at a time with no welfare state to fall back on.

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  3. does anyone perhaps know where the original painting is displayed? i really need it for a project in school!

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