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A Dream of the Past: Sir Isumbras at the Ford

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A Dream of the Past: Sir Isumbras at the Ford is an 1856 to 1857 painting by the English artist John Everett Millais. It shows a medieval knight carrying two peasant children, who are burdened with loads of wood for winter fuel, across a swollen river ford. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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A Dream of the Past: Sir Isumbras at the Ford is an 1856 to 1857 painting by the English artist John Everett Millais.
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