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Dante Gabriel Rossetti.
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1854. Oil on canvas. Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE, USA.
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The subject, inspired by William Bell Scott’s poem ‘
Rosabell
’, later re-titled ‘
Maryanne
’, is that of a prostitute recognized by her former fiancé, a young farmer. She cowers beside the wall of a graveyard, symbolizing death and damnation
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