“She kisses her first on one cheek, then on the other.”
Cassell’s Family Magazine, 1881.
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John Everett Millais, Il Penseroso.
I can’t get over how absolutely at home this painting looks in a modern context, given that Millais died in 1896.
P.R.B. FO’ LYFE
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