Ways of Seeing

In Chapter 6, compare the visual characteristics of the images "Sarah Burge, 1883. Dr Barnardo's Homes", and the oil painting by Bartolome Murillo titled "Peasant Boy Leaning on Sill".

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The boy is more life-like with softer texture, skin-shading and tactile hair compared to the girl's pasty white features with no skin shading or tone, black stringy featureless hair, and a dark dress with no relative sense of texture.