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"The Dudley Gallery. Egyptian Hall." The Art-Journal, 1 December 1872: 309.

So entirely now does painting take its themes from domestic sources, that mythology, and even poetry, are but little referred to. There is, however, another mythological conceit, ‘Autumn Love’ (96), Simeon Solomon, but so enigmatical as to leave us in doubt as to its reading. The Cupid of the piece is not the chubby child commonly pictured by painters and sung by poets, but a well-grown youth passing through a thicket, subject to the inconveniences of a cold wind which whirls aloft the now sere and yellow leaves. It may, or may not, be the solution of life the riddle that love is cold in the autumn of life: under any circumstances the question is scarcely worth propounding as a riddle. ... On the two screens are some small pictures ... are a few paintings of merit, by ... Miss Solomon, ...

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