Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind (painting)

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Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind
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Artist John Everett Millais
Year1892
Type Oil on canvas, landscape painting
Dimensions108 cm× 155 cm(43 in× 61 in)
Location Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland

Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind is an 1892 oil painting by the British artist John Everett Millais. A landscape blended with genre painting it shows a snow-covered scene in which a woman sits with her child, apparently abandoned by her lover. [1] The title is drawn from a passage in William Shakespeare's As You Like It . [2]

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The work was displayed at the Royal Academy's Summer Exhibition of 1892. The painting is now in the collection of the Auckland Art Gallery in New Zealand. [3]

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