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Ministers abandon plan to make overseas visitors pay for England’s top museums
Culture secretary Lisa Nandy says the 15 national museums and galleries ‘must be free, forever, for everyone to access’
![From The Victorian Web
"The etching features six children in addition to Jesus in the early angular awkward style of Pre-Raphaelite drawings from the early 1850s. Collinson has surprisingly shown Nazareth as being on the seashore, which it obviously wasn't. In the right background can be seen the buildings of a typical village of the Holy Land. Five cypress trees can be seen on the headland, echoed by five olive trees beneath them, which surely alludes to the five sorrowful mysteries (Newman 49) The large shells in the foreground are symbolic of pilgrimage. The young Jesus has a crown of hawthorn flowers on his head surrounded by a cruciform halo. This garland was a gift from John the Baptist and is symbolic of Christ's later crown of thorns worn at his crucifixion. The standing boy with a halo, who is undoubtedly intended to represent John the Baptist, hands Jesus a cross with a banner reading in gothic script "ecce Agnus Dei" [behold the lamb of God]. One young boy kneels reverently at Jesus's feet, his left hand holding Jesus's right hand. A girl holds up a baby for Jesus to bless. Two other children kneel in the background holding flowers, which likely also have symbolic meaning."
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