The Blind Girl | John Everett Millais | 1856 George Frederic Watts and emotional collapse

and emotional collapse

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About the artwork:

The Blind Girl | John Everett Millais | 1856 George Frederic Watts and emotional collapseAbout the artwork: John Everett Millais's 1856 painting, "The Blind Girl," portrays two young female beggars, likely sisters, resting by a roadside after a rainstorm near Winchelsea, Sussex. The elder, blind, holds a concertina on her lapa symbol of her means to earn a livingand wears a sign reading "Pity the Blind." She tilts her face upward, feeling the sun's warmth and touching a blade of grass, engaging her remaining senses. A tortoiseshell