
Frederick Walker1840–1875¿Se puede contemplar?
Londres, Reino Unido
Pertenece a la colección, pero ahora mismo no está expuesta.
This is one of a pair of watercolours by Frederick Walker (1840-1875). The other is Spring, now also in the V&A. Spring shows a young girl picking primroses with a boy companion. Here, Autumn depicts a young woman, alone, holding an apple – the fruit of the biblical Tree of Knowledge. It is probable that Walker is referring not only to the passage of the seasons, but also to the passage of human life, and it may be that the woman in Autumn has lost, and now pines for, her early love.
Museo de Victoria y Alberto