Broken Vows

Image credit: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

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A woman swoons against an ivy-clad wall, overhearing her lover flirting with a new friend. The sense of betrayal is reinforced by the initials carved on the gate. This is a smaller repetition of a painting exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1857, with a quotation from Longfellow's 'The Spanish Student', Act II, scene iv, spoken by Preciosa, 'More hearts are breaking in this world of ours' (Tate Britain ).

The Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology

Oxford

Title

Broken Vows

Date

1857

Medium

oil on board

Measurements

H 29 x W 22 cm

Accession number

WA1962.17.9

Acquisition method

Bequeathed by Francis Falconer Madan, 1962

Work type

Painting

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