3 Paintings, Richard Redgrave’s The Outcasts, with footnotes The Outcast
Jun 3, 2023
The Lost Path, c. 1863
Oil on canvas
7½ x 5¼ in. (9.1 x 13.3 cm.)
Foundling Museum
In an age when sexual innocence was highly valued and sex for a respectable woman was deemed appropriate only within marriage, the loss of chastity for an unwed woman had multiple repercussions…