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Monday, August 8, 2011

Jane Benham Hay - England and Italy, 1859.






In the exhibition catalogue, the picture was depicted as showing "Two boys, one of English type, the other an Italian boy of the people." The artist said "In one I have endeavored to express the pure happiness of our children; in the other the obstination of the oppressed and suffering poor of Italy."

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