hidden details in millais’ ophelia:
- a robin perched on a branch in the upper right hand corner.
- a mist of cobweb above the sitter’s feet ominously remminiscent of a skull.
- dead reeds rotting in the water. the backdrop was in 1851 from june until november, in ewell, surrey.
- a garland of violets around the neck of ophelia, modelled by elizabeth siddal.
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