Seamstresses. Frank Holl. 1875. Oil on canvas. Courtesy of the Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter. Catalogue no. 8 in the 2013 Watts Gallery exhibition, Frank Holl: Emerging from the Shadows. [Click on image to enlarge it.]
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References
Bills, Mark. Frank Holl: Emerging from the Shadows. London: I. B. Tauris, 2013.
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