Long Engagement is a painting by Pre-Raphael artist Arthur Hughes created between 1854 and 1859. The painting was originally titled Orlando >.
The painting depicts a priest and his fiancé in the forest setting.
The title refers to the middle-class social convention of the time, in particular the fact that the parents of a girl working for a low-paying priest usually do not allow marriage until she gets a more favorable position - that is within the hierarchy of the church. The girl is pictured seeing her own name (Amy) carved, moments ago, into the tree trunk by her fiancee as an expression of her love. The engraving, however, will be covered by the growing ivy growing stems; the tender young passion is lost to the demands of worldly capitalists. It can be argued that this symbolism reflects a vivid reality in the late 1850s and 1860s, which is, of course, an observation made by the English historian A. N. Wilson. In his book The Victorians (London: Arrow Books, 2003), Wilson makes the following observations and analyzes of the importance of The Long Engagement :
It describes the emotional state that comes directly from the economic situation. The prosperity that has created the great bourgeoisie with its gradation from the lower middle class has also created a code. You can not marry, and maintain a position in the community you aspire to, until you have some money in the bank. (page 260)
Hughes has finished his previous painting, April Love , from the same theme. The Long Engagement was given to the Birmingham Museum & amp; Gallery of Art in the "Dr Griffiths" wills in 1902, and remains in the collection to this day.
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