A young woman pressing a half-open book to her heart, her eyes raised upwards, as she undergoes a religious revelation. Colour lithograph after James Sant.

  • Sant, James, 1820-1916.
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29525i
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"'The soul's awakening,' if the number of times it has been reproduced be a true test of popularity, must be the ideal of thousands. Certainly the direct simplicity of Mr. Sant's subjects, and the entire absence of affectation in his treatment, are qualities which are far more worthy, if less exciting, than many soulful and affected compositions which reveal no more craft and far less straightforward accomplishment."--Gleeson White The master painters of Britain, New York 1909, p. 212

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London : Girls own paper (Leeds : Alf Cooke)

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1 print : lithograph, printed in colours ; image 17.6 x 14.5 cm

Lettering

The soul's awakening. From the painting in the Royal Academy, by James Sant, R.A. Principal Painter in Ordinary to Her Majesty.

Reference

Wellcome Collection 29525i

Reproduction note

After a painting exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1888. "The other picture [in addition to "The infant Samuel."] by which Mr Sant is still known in hundreds of homes was that called "The Soul's Awakening"-a picture of which the sentimentality delighted the public."-The times, 13 July 1916

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