Loot - "One Touch of Nature Makes the Whole World Kin"

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John Evan Hodgson, R.A.
Born London, 1831-1895

Loot - "One Touch of Nature Makes the Whole World Kin" 1878

Oil on canvas
Presented by John Robertson, 1886
Museum Number 42-1912

In the 19th Century there was a fashion for 'exotic' scenes in art. Here, two North African figures examine the effects of a European soldier. They pause for reflection as they discover a locket, which presumably holds a picture of the dead officer's wife.

Hodgson visited North Africa in 1869. The figures, their style of dress and weapons all reflect what he would have seen on his travels.