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Description: | The young governess in this scene sits sadly holding a letter, probably from home. Her black dress suggests that someone close to her has died, perhaps a parent. The plate and teacup show that she has eaten her small meal alone. In contrast, the children she teaches are playing shuttlecock in the sunshine in the garden behind her. The post of governess was one of the few jobs open to middle-class young women who needed to go out to work in Victorian times. It was often a lonely life. Richard Redgrave was a successful artist, curator and art writer. | License: | http://www.imagine.org.uk/about/copyright/ | Rights holder: | Tyne & Wear Museums | Subjects: | art movement artists oil paintings art children women | Source: | Tyne and Wear Imagine | Identifier: | http://www.imagine.org.uk/details/index.... | Go to resource |
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