The Unwelcome Companion: A Street Scene in Cairo  1873

Oil on Canvas [br] It was misidentified as [i]Spanish Tambourine Girl [/i]until a label with the correct name was discovered by Anthony Hobson. As the scenario of [i]The Unwelcome Companion[/i] "is obscure", Hobson says that Waterhouse "Had not yet acquired that combination of an appropriate setting with the pose and gesture of the figure which within a few years was ...