Nexius_Lobster@lemmy.worldcakeM to Traditional Art@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-211 months agoThe New Governess by Edmund Blair Leightonlemmy.worldimagemessage-square5fedilinkarrow-up135arrow-down10
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minus-squareWaitingForNextYear@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·11 months agoI’d love to hear the story behind this one.
minus-squareSinnerman@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up3·11 months agoApparently it’s called “The New Governess” but that’s all I’ve been able to figure out: https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Edmund\_Blair\_Leighton\_-\_The\_New\_Governess.jpg
minus-squareWaitingForNextYear@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·11 months agoThat tells me a lot! She’s a young teacher, and the girls are wondering what she’ll be like.
minus-squareSinnerman@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up2·11 months agoLooks like OP just added the title. I can’t make out what’s in her hand. A watch? The medals left by her dead father? The tiny suspenders of her child who died at a young age? More info about governesses: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Governess https://www.mimimatthews.com/2015/06/15/the-literary-governess-depictions-in-austen-bronte-thackeray-and-heyer/
minus-squareWaitingForNextYear@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·11 months agoThe harness for her cat, who’s in the bag?
I’d love to hear the story behind this one.
Apparently it’s called “The New Governess” but that’s all I’ve been able to figure out:
https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Edmund\_Blair\_Leighton\_-\_The\_New\_Governess.jpg
That tells me a lot! She’s a young teacher, and the girls are wondering what she’ll be like.
Looks like OP just added the title.
I can’t make out what’s in her hand. A watch? The medals left by her dead father? The tiny suspenders of her child who died at a young age?
More info about governesses:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Governess
https://www.mimimatthews.com/2015/06/15/the-literary-governess-depictions-in-austen-bronte-thackeray-and-heyer/
The harness for her cat, who’s in the bag?