Moody, green-gold painting of a young woman with long auburn hair standing in a dim medieval-looking chamber. She wears a pale off-the-shoulder gown and gathers her hands at her waist, while a heavy, richly embroidered cloak pools at her feet; light from a window casts a lattice of bright squares across the floor beside a bed and dark wood panelling.
“Her rich attire creeps rustling to her knees:
Half-hidden, like a mermaid in sea-weed,
Pensive awhile she dreams awake”
(John Keats)
🎨 John Everett Millais “Eve of St Agnes” (1863, detail)
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