Sophia Finlay and Harriet 1843 - 1847 Farnie Robert Adamson, David Octavius Hill

Autor:

Hill & Adamson

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https://czwiki.cz/b/363b4

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Wikimedia Commons

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500 x 659 Pixel (106641 Bytes)

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This is one of four calotypes of young girls with David Octavius Hill’s dog, a terrier pup called Brownie. The girls depicted are Sophia Finlay – Hill’s great-niece – and Harriet Farnie, the younger of two sisters. Sleeping children were a recurring theme in nineteenth-century art, as it played on the Victorian fascination with childhood innocence and death. The image is clear and well-defined, which means that the girls must have sat very still for anything from several seconds up to a minute. Presumably the dog had been played with until it collapsed in exhaustion. Hill later called this picture ‘The Sleepers’ and added ‘Brownie, my stolen and lamented terrier pup’.

Licence:

Public domain

Credit:

Scottish National Gallery

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