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'What is it?', Henry Stacy Marks

Six adults in medieval dress with their backs to us are looking over a bridge

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The figures in medieval dress with their backs to us are looking at something we will never see. The question mark in the title is intended to involve us, inviting us to guess what might be happening. ‘The forte of this artist is humour’ wrote a critic. 

Artwork Details

Medium and Support: Oil on canvas
Date: 1872
Accession No: WAG 268

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