books0977: Idleness. Patrick Allan-Fraser (Scottish, 1812-1890). Oil on canvas. Hospitalfield Centre
books0977: Idleness. Patrick Allan-Fraser (Scottish, 1812-1890). Oil on canvas. Hospitalfield Centre for Art & Culture.A maid is asleep in a chair, the tools of cleaning littering the floor alongside an overturned book, presumably having been read and dropped. The book is identified as one belonging to Allan-Fraser, An Unpopular View of Our Time. Allan-Fraser used his own maid as the model. -- source link