Photographs

Visiting the Prisoners

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Type: Photographs(Opens in new tab)
Date: ca. 1875
Accession number: 2000.5.2782
Makers: Morris and Company(Opens in new tab) (British, 1861–1940); Unknown, British(Opens in new tab) (British)
Designer: Edward Burne-Jones(Opens in new tab) (British, 1833–1898)
Dimensions: 2 3/8 x 2 1/4 in. (6 x 5.7 cm.)
Medium: photograph
Description: Ragged prisoner, shackled to wall, reclines at left. Second figure, seated, reads to him from open book. Brick wall with large barred circular window behind.
Credit: The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens
Department: European Art
Find out more: View in the Art Museum catalog(Opens in new tab)

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