Oil paint on canvas
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<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/sir-william-quiller-orchardson-407" aria-label="More by Sir William Quiller Orchardson" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">Sir William Quiller Orchardson</a>
Her Mothers Voice
Presented by Sir Henry Tate 1894
adults
architecture
carpet
chair
couple
curtain
daughter
domestic
emotions and human qualities
emotions, concepts and ideas
family
features
fine arts and music
furnishings
heating and lighting
instrument, piano
interiors
leisure and pastimes
light / lamp
living room
man
man, old
memory
music
music and entertainment
newspaper - non-specific
objects
people
reading, writing, printed matter
sex and relationships
singing
society
table
widower
window
woman
<p>The widower in the foreground looks up as he thinks for a moment that he hears his late wife's voice as his daughter, whom he cannot see, begins to sing. The picture was exhibited with lines from Tennyson's poem Break, break, break: But O for the touch of a vanish'd hand/ And the sound of a voice that is still. The poetic quote underscores the deeply sentimental nature of this painting.</p><p><em>Gallery label, August 2004</em></p>
painting oil paint canvas
Her Mother’s Voice
support: 1016 × 1486 mm
Presented by <a href="/search?gid=999999962" data-gtm-name="tombstone_link_bequest" data-gtm-destination="list-page--search-results">Sir Henry Tate</a> 1894
<p>The widower in the foreground looks up as  he thinks for a moment that he hears his late  wife's voice as his daughter, whom he cannot  see, begins to sing. The picture was exhibited with lines from Tennyson's poem Break, break, break: 
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But O for the touch of a vanish'd hand/ And the sound of a voice that is still.
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The poetic quote underscores the deeply sentimental nature of this <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/painting" title="Glossary definition for 'Painting'"><span>painting</span></a>.
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adults architecture carpet chair couple curtain daughter domestic emotions and human qualities emotions, concepts and ideas family features fine arts and music furnishings heating and lighting instrument, piano interiors leisure and pastimes light / lamp living room man man, old memory music music and entertainment newspaper - non-specific objects people reading, writing, printed matter sex and relationships singing society table widower window woman