Charity 5x7 Postcard

Charity | 1770s

English artist George Romney created this piece, along with many other similar works in charcoal, over the course of the 1770s. 

While little is known about this particular piece, Romney often worked in metaphor around social, mythological, and religious ideas, so it’s very likely that this is meant to be the concept of charity in human form. This postcard is a museum reproduction sourced from the archives of the Yale Center for British Art.