Past and Present (III)

The wife abandoned by her lover with her bastard child]

Augustus Leopold Egg

1858

Oil on canvas

25 x 30 inche

Tate Gallery, London

[ The infidelity discovered]

[The abandoned daughters]

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References

Hunt, William Holman. "Notes on the Life of August L. Egg." The Reader. 1 (1863): 462, 486-67, 557-58; 2 (1863): 42-43, 91, 516-17; 3 (1864): 56-57. The essay appeared anonymously, but Hunt discusses writing it with William Bell Scott, one of whose letters he included in the text.

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