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‘Work’ jigsaw puzzle by Ford Madox Brown, manufactured by Pomegranate. Work, Brown’s most celebrated painting, is a Victorian social commentary on the importance of work. Brown is said to have been inspired by the sight of laborers installing drains, as depicted in the center of the painting. At left are an impoverished flower seller and a woman doing religious work (distributing tracts). At right are two of society’s “brainworkers,” F. D. Maurice, founder of the Working Men’s College, and essayist Thomas Carlyle, whose work influenced Brown. |
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