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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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Medium
Medium (category)
Oil on Canvas 2
Classification
Genre
Painting 1
Year Created
1857 2
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Painting, Art Forms
Source A Dream of the Past: Sir Isumbras at the Ford (Wikipedia)

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Painting, Art Forms

Entity-backed identity for the genre enum value this work already carries, resolved to an arts art-form by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The genre fact itself, with its own citation, stays on the work unchanged.

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1. A Dream of the Past: Sir Isumbras at the Ford (Wikipedia)
  • Genre reference
    A Dream of the Past: Sir Isumbras at the Ford is an 1856 to 1857 painting by the English artist John Everett Millais.
  • In Form: Painting, lead paragraph
    A Dream of the Past: Sir Isumbras at the Ford (1856-57) is a painting by John Everett Millais depicting a medieval knight helping two young peasant children over a swollen river. The children are carrying heavy burdens of wood for
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2. Wikidata: A Dream of the Past: Sir Isumbras at the Ford
  • Wikidata Q1289031, class allow-list match (w-bbfill-artsarchag-0926 resolve_missing)
  • Wikidata Q1289031, P571 claim (w-bbfill-artsarchag-0926)
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