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The Awakening Conscience

Oil on canvas · 55.9 × 76.2 cm

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Tate, London

About the painting

The Awakening Conscience (1853) is an oil-on-canvas painting by the English artist William Holman Hunt, one of the founders of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, which depicts a woman rising from her position in a man's lap and gazing transfixed out the room's window.

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The painting is in the collection of the Tate Britain, in London.

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Image: William Holman Hunt; Wikimedia Commons · public domain

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