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

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'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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Size: 3580px × 4632px
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Photo credit: © The Print Collector/Heritage Images / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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