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    These links take you to PDFs with information about key artworks in the Fitzwilliam Museum’s collection. Each fact sheet is specifically written for teachers.

    A portrait painting of a worried woman, leaning away from a man who is whispering in her ear through a window. Behind her, through the window, some people lean over a card table, gambling.

     

    Alfred Elmore,

    On the Brink

    A renaissance painting of a woman with a baby sitting on her lap, signing a piece of paper that is handed to her by a large winged skeleton, which looms over her side. Two cherubs stand to the left.

     

    Salvator Rosa,

    Human Frailty

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