Blind Girl Postcard

This postcard depicts The Blind Girl by John Everett Millais. The blind girl is an imagined scene of modern Victorian life, but it is also a painting about the beauty of nature. A young homeless blind woman, travelling from place to place with her sister, has stopped to rest by the roadside. She cannot see the sunlit landscape or the small tortoiseshell butterfly which has landed on her shawl, but she experiences the natural world through her other senses. [shortcode] [short-description]

• Artist: John Everett Millais
• Artwork: the Blind Girl
• Date of work: 1854-1856

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