| Title: | 1906P655 Stewart Harrison's The Iceberg - The Seamstress |
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| Description: |
1906P655 Stewart Harrison's The Iceberg - The Seamstress, 1860 Artist: John Everett Millais The Seamstress is an illustration to 'The Iceberg', a story by J. Stewart Harrison published in the periodical 'Once A Week'. The story tells of a sailor (Ben) who is attached to a young woman (Esther) and returns from a voyage to discover she has borne a son by another man. The plight of 'fallen women' reduced to piece-work sewing for miserably low pay was first brought to public attention through Thomas Hood's poem 'The Song of the Shirt', published in Punch in 1843. |
| Keywords: |
Art Movement/ Pre-Raphaelite, Birmingham Museums Trust/Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery, Watercolour, Figurative, Female, Baby, Sewing, Study, Cradle, Works on Paper, Literature/ Novel |
| Usage Rights: | Creative Commons 0 - Public Domain. Optional attribution: Photo by Birmingham Museums Trust, licensed under CC0 |
| Height: | 555, 112 |
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| Width: | 404, 138 |
| Depth: | 5 |
| Unit: | mm, mm |
| Credit Line: | Purchased and presented by subscribers, 1906. |
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