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Waterhouse and Punch satire
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Waterhouse's painting '
Consulting the Oracle' of 1884 was given the following alternative description by Punch magazine (July 12, 1884).
"Fatima, with her party of Ladies, listening for the sound of Bluebeard's Footstep on the stairs."
More spoofs of Waterhouse's work can be found
here.
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Waterhouse would later exhibit a painting with the title '
Fatima' in 1911, it was sold the same year, and no reproduction exists of it, and its current location is unknown.
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