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ChrisRawlins — The Discovery of Kitty Jay
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Poor girl. In that period there were few options for a young girl who was unwed and pregnant.
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STUNNING!! Emotions evoked here so strongly!
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Your amazing work is featured in my News Article - Women in Art XIV - Digital (Photomanipulation - Horror & Macabre) [link] . Hope you like it
Love your work!!!
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I'm not sure, there could be?
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Did you snatched the woman from Nicolay Bessonov? I think you did, you naughty man! [link]
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It looks like it, I hadn't realised at the time. That's the trouble with image searches, your never sure of the original artist, author because it's usually already been stolen several times. I will add a credit and link to the site. Thank you for pointing this out. On that note I must say the other artworks are fantastic.
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Well done.
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This is amazing. Is it ok if I use this for reference for a drawing? Its the best hung lady I could find =-)
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very intense piece man, and wonderful texturing as well!
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What a heart wrenching picture. I enjoyed the backstory as well.
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Amazing folklore work... Your style is very amazing and the details are not missed... Every work of yours, enjoyable to search the deatils everytime.
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Wow...amazingly done. What's the backstory (if any)?
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Kitty Jay is a suicide victim who is thought to have died in the late 18th century. Her Grave has become a well-known landmark on Dartmoor, Devon, in South-West England, and is the subject of local folklore, and many a ghost story.
The small burial mound is to be found beside a narrow lane just below Hound Tor. A glass jar on top of the grave is regularly refilled with fresh flowers, although who does this remains a mystery.
The grave is believed to contain the bones of an orphan called Kitty Jay (some reports name her as Mary Jay), who worked on a farm near the village of Manaton. As a teenager, she was apparently raped by a young farmhand and became pregnant. Such was her shame that Kitty Jay hung herself in a barn.
The three local parishes of Widecombe-in-the-Moor, North Bovey and Manaton all refused to bury her body within consecrated ground, so she was buried at a crossroads - a traditional practice for suicide victims at the time. This also happened to be the point at which the three parishes joined. Her remains were discovered in 1860, placed in a coffin and reburied.
The flowers that regularly appear there are the subject of local folklore - some claim they are placed there by pixies. Motorists, passing at night, claim to have glimpsed ghostly figures in their headlights, others report seeing a dark, hooded figure kneeling there.
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Thanks for the background...a very fascinating (but tragic) story.
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That's really a very impressive illustration. Grim--but that's the point though, isn't it? Very atmospheric.
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Absolutely stunning. I couldn't tear my eyes off it for a minute. Very intense and emotional - not to mention extremely well crafted.
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Bravo!
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Thank you, I'm glad you like it.
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I really like this - which probably says too much about me - but it's extremely well crafted.
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Kitty was just hangin' around the farm that day, eh? (cant help myself..hehe) Nice one !
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