Dour Dower -- Portrait of Welsh Woman in 1885
by Jayne Somogy
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9.000 x 12.000 x 0.100 inches
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Title
Dour Dower -- Portrait of Welsh Woman in 1885
Artist
Jayne Somogy
Medium
Drawing - Colored Pencil On 98-lb. Toned Paper
Description
This is an historically accurate portrait of a Welsh housewife in Welsh national dress in 1885. I would love to know the history behind that rather odd hat, apparently worn indoors by all Welsh women at that time! The title is composed of two homonyms--dour, the word that means "relentlessly severe" or "gloomy" and dower, the word that means "that part of a deceased husband's property that goes to the widow for her lifetime." Doesn't she look like a gloomy widow?
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