''Mr Heathcliff?', I said. A nod was the answer.'

Image credit: Brontë Parsonage Museum

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The quotation on which the painting is based is taken from the opening paragraphs of Chapter One of Emily Brontë's novel 'Wuthering Heights', when Mr Lockwood, the narrator, first meets Heathcliff, then owner of Thrushcross Grange, where Mr Lockwood has taken out a tenancy. Painted in a late-Victorian romantic style, it was donated by the artist, who specialised in painting scenes from the lives of famous public figures, and from novels.

Brontë Parsonage Museum

Keighley

Title

''Mr Heathcliff?', I said. A nod was the answer.'

Medium

oil on canvas

Measurements

H 90 x W 69.5 cm

Accession number

P55

Acquisition method

gift from the artist, 1914

Work type

Painting

Inscription description

`'Mr.Heathcliff?' I said. A nod was the answer.' '

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