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EDWARD HENRY CORBOULD (1815-1905)
Hetty Sorrel and Captain Donnithorne in Mrs Poyser's dairy
dated 1861RCIN 451113
This scene from George Eliot’s Adam Bede is a pair to Dinah Morris Preaching. It depicts the young heir to Donnithorne Chase admiring the flirtatious Hetty Sorrel who works in her aunt’s dairy. As a pair, the works contrast the behaviour of the virtuous and modest Dinah with the extrovertly self-aware Hetty.
Commissioned by Queen Victoria in 1860
No. 77
Commissioned by Queen Victoria in 1860
No. 77
