Hubert von Herkomer

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Biographical and Critical Materials

• Biography
• The Graphic and Social Realism of the Seventies and Eighties

Thomas Hardy's Tess of the Durbervilles

• "There stood her mother, amid the group of children, hanging over the washing tub"
• "'This here stooping do fairly make my back open and shut,' exclaimed the dairy man."
• "You be going to marry him?' asked Marian"
• "They reached the cloister-garth"
• "On going up to the fire . . ."
• "He lay on his back as if he had scarcely moved"

Material for The Palette

• Monthly title-page with nude (June 1887)
• Monthly title-page with nude (August-September)

The Idyl

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• The opening scene
• The closing scene

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