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Title
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Blind Love
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Actual Title
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Blind Love (Cupid)
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Date (Painted or Exhibited)
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c . 1875
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Catalog Number
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77
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Catalog Description
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(Water Colour drawing, 1862.)
Love as a pilgrim is holding in his right hand an arrow, wherewith he is feeling his way along the street.
"Love looks not with the eyes but with the mind,
And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind." --Shakespeare.
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Alt-Text
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A barefoot, bare-chested angel with red wings and a loincloth stands in a narrow, arched stone hallway, casting a soft shadow, with light streaming in from above.
