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The Rescue is an 1855 oil-on-canvas painting by the English artist John Everett Millais. It depicts a fireman carrying three young children from a burning house to safety, with their mother reaching out to receive them back into her arms. 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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The Rescue is an 1855 oil-on-canvas painting by the English artist John Everett Millais.
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