The Blind Girl

The Blind Girl

John Everett Millais
1856. Oil on canvas. 62×83 cm cm. Birmingham Museums Trust, Birmingham, UK.

A Pre-Raphaelite masterpiece depicting two itinerant musicians—a blind girl and her younger guide—resting along a roadside near Winchelsea after a rainstorm. As a vivid double rainbow stretches across the sky, the sighted child turns to admire it, while the blind girl senses nature through touch, sound, and smell, underscored by a Small Tortoiseshell butterfly resting on her shawl.

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