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- ↑ Fraser's Magazine, March 1866, p. 358
- ↑ Tate Gallery Website. The painting is now in the collection of the Tate Gallery. The woman and the man chasing her are being eternally punished, the one for her hard heart and the other killing himself over her. The figures watch the scene as a lesson in love gone wrong.
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