29 July

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Hamo Thornycroft (1850-1925)

Newspaper cutting "Grandmother's steps played by light of the world", 1960

h 27.8, w 13.2 cm Donated by Mrs Elfrida Manning, 1982

The couple depicted in the photograph seem in a time warp of their
own which is even more striking because the cutting is from a 1960s
paper. It turns out that the cutting is a book review from the
granddaughter of the Holman-Hunts. Through circumstances the
granddaughter was brought up by her grandparents. They seemed to
have been completely submerged into the past, giving their
granddaughter a wealth of information to write about later. It must
have been as if time had stopped and she had the chance to re-live
the Pre-Raphaelite movement decades after it had ceased to exist.