Friday, October 29, 2010

The Child in the World

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Thomas Cooper Gotch
(English, 1854-1931)
The Child in the World, 1900
Watercolor
Gotch explained it as the child "standing alone and unafraid in the innermost, horridest home of the Dragon, called the World, who is powerless against her innocence". The model for the child was his daughter Phyllis.
 From The Victorian Web

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