Cleveland Museum of Art
Study for "The Hireling Shepherd"
William Holman Hunt (British, 1827–1910) · 1851
Contemporary viewers would have recognized the painting for which this drawing is a study as bearing a deeper meaning: the couple's risky flirtation will lead to disastrous consequences and the shepherd ignores his flock while distracted by romance.
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