Musidora Bathing
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Musidora Bathing is an 1849 oil painting by the British artist Arthur Hughes. It depicts a scene inspired by the poem Summer by the Scottish writer James Thomson. In it a young woman Musidora is surpr
James Thomson was a Scottish poet and playwright, known for his poems The Seasons and The Castle of Indolence, and for the lyrics of "Rule, Britannia!"
Portrait by Stephen Slaughter, 1736
1726 portrait of Thomson by John Vanderbank
The poet James Thomson as depicted on the Scott Monument
The frontispiece of The Seasons by James Thomson. Published by Alexander Donaldson