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Her Daughter's Legacy. by Arthur Hacker, from the Royal Academy Exhibition, 1881. Creator: Unknown.

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Her Daughter's Legacy. by Arthur Hacker, from the Royal Academy Exhibition, 1881. Engraving of a painting depicting '...a pathetic story of humble family life, suggested..., as well by the title as by the figures of the sleeping child and the aged woman - certainly the grandmother - who is watching his slumber with an air of sorrowful tenderness, of resigned despondency, that comes from long meditation upon her lost daughter's untimely fate. We are led to imagine that the mother of this innocent little boy has been tempted...to stray from the path of womanly virtue, and has, after experiencing the common lot of betrayal and desertion, returning broken-hearted..., died of grief and shame. Her only parent and only friend has taken charge of the little one, and has cherished him, in the loneliness and poverty of her widowhood...with the same fondness, though not with the same pride and joy, as if he had been the son of...a respectable and happy marriage. It is a...common story...full of deep moral interest, and it is eloquent in reproof of that basest form of vicious selfishness which leaves others to suffer, of the weaker sex, and obliges them to bear the sore burden of consequences, from mutual wrong-doing, unprotected and uncared for'. From "Illustrated London News", 1881.

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Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

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HRM25A33_197

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Droits gérés

Format disponible

26,4Mo (2,5Mo) / 31,1cm x 21,3cm / 3668 x 2511 (300dpi)

Mots clés

building buildings female women woman people interior house houses family arts painting class marriage housing art sleep sleeping British innocence cottage cottages poor poverty Victorian century Britain inside asleep innocent newspapers grandmother press picture print grandchildren grandchild concept pictures B&W sentimental old woman engraved engraving Working Class 19th century elderly woman Indoors black & white black and white B W working-class widow nineteenth century The Print Collector Illustrated London News morality social class wood engraving ILN illegitimacy Arthur Hacker newspaper illegitimate Unknown Hacker Arthur 19th-century The Illustrated London News