Talk:Found (Rossetti)

Still to do
✅ I can scan the ink-and-wash compositional study of 1853 and the head study of Fanny of 1858. - PKM (talk) 04:33, 26 January 2012 (UTC)

✅ compositional study at Birmingham to be added. PKM (talk) 20:43, 26 January 2012 (UTC)


 * I should be able to find a good calf reference in a bit. Smallbones (talk) 05:54, 27 January 2012 (UTC)

Missing info
The title of the painting is "Found" but there is not the slightest text in the article to explain the title. What is "found"? Has the man found his sister, or daughter? Are the two strangers, and the man is urging her to leave her life of prostitution? I see the painting but the article explains nothing about the meaning of the scene beyond the lamb. Why the wall? Why the half-buried cannon? Why a triumphal arch in the background? How do we know the man is a farmer? How do we know the woman is a prostitute? Nick Beeson (talk) 13:15, 11 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Try actually reading it, including the artist's own description, and poem about it. She is his ex-fiancee. And looking at the image: the "triumphal arch" is clearly a bridge. The cannon is installed as a bollard, common in C19 England after the Napoleonic Wars. Looking at Rosetti's study at the end of the article might help. Johnbod (talk) 16:11, 11 November 2015 (UTC)