John Scott, British
Laundry Lady Getting the Sheet Scared Out of Her, 1891
Oil on canvas
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John Scott, British
Laundry Lady Getting the Sheet Scared Out of Her, 1891
Oil on canvas
Initially attributed to John W.A. Scott here, this is actually by John Scott, British. The pointed to Wikipedia page contains what info, or links to info, I could find about him online.
/// “Beauty’s in the eye of the beholder.”
Men she liked gave the maid the cold shoulder.
Used a sheet to enfold her,
which had sometimes consoled her.
Why’d she do it? A little bird told her.
/// She “interprets” the bird’s raucous squawks
to decipher advice when it “talks.”
Swaddling in a wet sheet
calms her from the defeat
of rejection by chauvinist jocks.
/// Laundress startled by blackbird’s shrill tweet,
wraps herself, head to toe, in a sheet.
True, she fears being pecked,
but, to be more direct,
she’s afraid that the bird is in heat.
/// The vile creature, as black as the night,
came from nowhere to give her a fright.
From her Daddy she’d learned
(under crosses he burned),
to wear sheets like her neighbors— all white.